The poet assassinated
By: by Guillaume Apollinaire ; translated from the French with a biographical notice and notes by Matthew Josephson.
Contributors: Derain, André, 1880-1954.
Publisher: Exact Change; Turnaround
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Boston, Mass; London
Language: eng; fre
Number of pages: 158
Subjects: Apollinaire, Guillaume, -- 1880-1918 -- Translations into English; France -- Social life and customs -- 20th century -- Fiction
Genres: Translations into English.; Fiction.
Work titles: Poète assassiné.
Description: "The poet Apollinaire was modernism's first champion, and after his early death in 1918, he became its first saint." "In 1916, while recovering from a head wound received in World War I, he published The Poet Assassinated, his most famous work of prose; a roman a clef mythologizing himself as well as friends and enemies including Pablo Picasso, Marie Laurencin, Jean Cocteau, Max Jacob, and others from the legendary "banquet years" of prewar Paris." "Apollinaire concocts a Rabelaisian parallel universe, and slyly tells his own life story, from illegitimate birth to literary fame, in the process. The novella recounts the life and death of Croniamantal, whose birth is "saluted" by the Eiffel Tower's "beautiful erection," who rises through the Parisian literary world to proclaim himself "the greatest of living poets," and who is promptly torn to pieces by a mob."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Reprint. Originally published: New York : Broom Publishing Co., 1923.

Translated from the French.