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Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918)

Author of Alcools

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Guillaume Apollinaire is one of the most widely read and influential of modern French poets. He was born either in Rome, where he was baptized, or in Monaco, where he was educated at the Lycee Saint-Charles. Quintessentially modern, his reputation rests principally on two volumes of poems-Alcools show more (1913) and Calligrammes (1918), which broke with the traditions of nineteenth-century poetry in both form and content. Apollinaire introduced free verse, eliminated punctuation, and even wrote poems in the form of pictures to express the dynamism of the new twentieth century. Apollinaire wrote novels, short stories, and plays as well as poetry. He wrote The Cubist Painters (1913), which first defined the nature of cubism. In addition, he edited for the Bibliotheque des Curieux erotic books of repute and helped to catalogue the repository of forbidden books in the Bibliotheque Nationale. He became the friend of great cubists, including Picasso and Braque. He died in the Spanish influenza epidemic of 1918. (Bowker Author Biography) Born on August 26, 1880 in Rome, Guillaume Apollinaire epitomizes the idea of the Bohemian life. His mother led a raucous life, running up gambling debts and forcing him to assume the identity of a Russian Prince to support her lifestyle. At that time, there was much speculation regarding his unknown father's identity. Appolinaire socialized with many avant-garde artists, including Picasso and Braque, and strongly influenced many artistic styles including cubism, dadaism, and surrealism; the latter a term he invented in his play The Breasts of Tiresias. Appolinaire was imprisoned on suspicion of stealing the Mona Lisa in 1911. He served in the French Army from 1914 to 1916. Guillaume's works include plays, poems, and short stories. The Poet Assasinated and The Wandering Jew and Other Stories are two of his more notable works. Calligrammes, published in 1918, is a collection of cubist poetry in which the poems are written in the shape of the objects that they describe, such as a car. Guillaume Apollinaire's life was cut short by the Spanish influenza epidemic of the early twentieth century. He died in November 1918, at the age of 38. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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Works by Guillaume Apollinaire

Alcools (1913) 500 copies
Calligrammes (1918) 353 copies
The Poet Assassinated (1916) 186 copies
Heresiarch & Co (1965) 173 copies
Apollinaire : Oeuvres poétiques complètes (1956) — Author — 86 copies
Poesie (1990) 71 copies
Flesh Unlimited (Creation Classics) (1740) — Contributor — 66 copies
Zone: selected poems (2015) 47 copies
Poèmes (1956) 38 copies
Le guetteur mélancolique (1952) 33 copies
La Roma de los Borgia (1984) 29 copies
L'enchanteur pourrissant (1909) 27 copies
Lettres à Lou (1976) 24 copies
The breasts of Tiresias (1986) — Author — 20 copies
Alcools: Selected poems (1965) 20 copies
Zone (1900) 20 copies
La femme assise (1900) 17 copies
Apollinaire : Oeuvres en prose, tome 1 (1977) — Author — 16 copies
Album Apollinaire (1971) — Author — 15 copies
Antología (1973) 13 copies
Le roi-lune (1997) 13 copies
Guillaume Apollinaire (2011) 12 copies
Selected Poems (Poetica) (2004) 11 copies
Selected Poems (1986) 11 copies
Apollinaire : Oeuvres en prose, tome 3 (1993) — Author — 9 copies
Iki Kiyinin Avaresi (2007) 7 copies
Ombre de mon amour (1948) 6 copies
Les diables amoureux (1964) 6 copies
Kubismus (2010) 5 copies
Guillaume Apollinaire — Author — 5 copies
Obra Poética (1901) 5 copies
Obra Poética (vol.1) (1999) 5 copies
Wybór pism (1980) 5 copies
The Little Auto (2012) 5 copies
Alfred Jarry Necrologies (2003) 4 copies
Anecdotiques (1955) 4 copies
Katledilen Sair (2004) 4 copies
Poésies libres (1978) 4 copies
Obra escogida (1982) 3 copies
Wandering Jew (1967) 3 copies
Obra poetica (tomo I) (1998) 3 copies
Poemas selectos (1994) 3 copies
Raspoutine (2003) 3 copies
Het lied van de onbeminde (2020) 3 copies
Poesie 2 copies
Poesies lliures (1989) 2 copies
Furst Vibescu 2 copies
Prsy tiresiovy (1994) 2 copies
Kacíř a spol. (2017) 2 copies
Julie, or, The rose (1978) 2 copies
Flaneur in Paris (2018) 2 copies
De schaduw 2 copies
"Stikhi". 2 copies
Gli amori (2016) 2 copies
Poesía Completa (vol.3) (1901) 2 copies
Henri Matisse: 1907-1918 (1993) 2 copies
Les trois Don Juan (2013) 2 copies
Novi duh 2 copies
Alliés des Serbes (1998) 2 copies
Poesie d'amore (2006) 2 copies
Les 11 000 Verges (2004) 1 copy
O Século das Nuvens (2007) 1 copy
Wybór poezji (1980) 1 copy
Saldi (1991) 1 copy
RIM BORDZIJA (2005) 1 copy
Madeleine 1 copy
Мост Мирабо (2010) 1 copy
ALKOLLER 1 copy
Gui aan Lou 1 copy
Apollinaire. (1969) 1 copy
Victory 1 copy
Poetische Werke (1969) 1 copy
Relatos 1 copy
Lou 1 copy
Poèmes à Lou (2014) 1 copy
Apollinaire versei (1980) 1 copy
Il y a (2013) 1 copy
Autumn : twenty poems (2003) 1 copy
Cartas a Lou (2008) 1 copy
L'hèrèsiarque et Cie (2016) 1 copy
Revue Europe, Novembre-Décembre 1966 : Apollinaire (1966) — Contributor — 1 copy
Le théatre italien (1910) 1 copy
Century of clouds (1985) 1 copy
Válogatott versek (2004) 1 copy
Hamaika mila idizil (2001) 1 copy
Poesia 1 copy
Il poeta assassinato (1976) 1 copy
Poemas (2010) 1 copy
El bestiari (2006) 1 copy
Apollinaire. Poesie (1965) 1 copy
Un album de jeunesse (2015) 1 copy
Oeuvres Poetiques (1965) 1 copy

Associated Works

Against Forgetting: Twentieth-Century Poetry of Witness (1993) — Contributor — 334 copies
Surrealist Painters and Poets: An Anthology (2001) — Contributor — 67 copies
Modern French Theatre (1964) — Contributor — 67 copies
Les mémoires d'une chanteuse allemande (1947) — Foreword, some editions — 36 copies
Three Pre-Surrealist Plays (1890) — Contributor — 34 copies
Elsewhere (Poets in the World) (2014) — Contributor — 24 copies
Fairy Poems (2023) — Contributor — 15 copies
Manifestos d'avantguarda : antologia (1995) — Contributor — 13 copies
Le Zombi du Grand Perou Ou la Comtesse de Cocagne (2014) — Preface, some editions — 8 copies
Racconti di cinema (2014) — Contributor — 3 copies
Historie Osobliwe I Fantastyczne — Contributor — 3 copies
Meesters der Franse vertelkunst (1950) — Contributor — 2 copies
The Sixties, Number 7, Winter 1964 (1964) — Contributor — 2 copies
L'Oeuvre du comte de mirabeau : Les maîtres de l'Amour (2015) — Introduction, Notes et essais complémentaire, some editions — 2 copies
Poor Old Tired Horse, Number 13 — Contributor — 1 copy
フランス短篇24 (現代の世界文学) (1989) — Contributor — 1 copy

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I purchased this book for the collection value. I took a chance and read it, knowing what I was getting into (any of the Obelisk and Olympia Press books are generally the same genre) but this one really breached the limits of nasty. Basically, if you're a freak, you might like it.
 
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KAC22381 | 5 other reviews | Sep 12, 2023 |
Best Apollinaire edition that you could read in Romanian. Several translators put a lot of effort into translating not just the already well-known Alcools, but also most of his other texts, including even a few Calligrammes. Brilliant poet, what a pity this edition has not been republsihed ever since... if you see it, grab it!
 
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