Lost profiles
Subtitle: memoirs of cubism, dada, and surrealism
By: Philippe Soupault ; translated and with a translator's note by Alan Bernheimer ; introduction by Mark Polizzotti ; afterword by Ron Padgett
Contributors: Bernheimer, Alan, 1948- translator; Polizzotti, Mark, writer of introduction; Padgett, Ron, 1942- writer of afterword
Publisher: City Lights Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 102
ISBN-13: 9780872867277
Subjects: Anecdotes; History and criticism; French literature; Surrealism (Literature); French Dadaist literature; French Authors; Cubism and literature; Biography; History
Other titles: Memoirs of cubism, dada, and surrealism
Work titles: Profils perdus
Description: "Lost Profiles is a remembrance of things past by poet and co-founder of the surrealist movement, Philippe Soupault. Beginning with a memoir of his involvement with Dada and his own role in transforming it into surrealism, Soupault takes us on a tour of post-WWI Paris, encountering the likes of Proust, Apollinaire, and Joyce during a seminal period of European culture"--
Notes: Translation of: Profils perdus.

Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Philippe Soupault Remembers /; title: by Mark Polizzotti -- Translator's Note -- Following in the Footsteps -- Guillaume Apollinaire -- Ode to Guillaume Apollinaire -- René Crevel -- Marcel Proust -- James Joyce -- Georges Bernanos -- Pierre Reverdy -- Blaise Cendrars -- Baudelaire Rediscovered -- Henri Rousseau, le Douanier -- Afterword: Remembering Philippe Soupault /-- by Ron Padgett.