The Self-Dismembered Man: A Social History of the American Musical Theatre by Apollinaire, Guillaume
The Self-Dismembered Man: A Social History of the American Musical Theatre by Apollinaire, Guillaume

The Self-Dismembered Man: A Social History of the American Musical Theatre

First substantial translation of Apollinaire's later works by an award-winning poet.Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with...
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Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
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The Self-Dismembered Man: A Social History of the American Musical Theatre by Apollinaire, Guillaume

The Self-Dismembered Man: A Social History of the American Musical Theatre

$49.54
The Self-Dismembered Man: A Social History of the American Musical Theatre by Apollinaire, Guillaume

The Self-Dismembered Man: A Social History of the American Musical Theatre

$49.54
Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Description
First substantial translation of Apollinaire's later works by an award-winning poet.

Guillaume Apollinaire's final years exactly coincided with the clamorous advent of European Modernism and with the cataclysms of WWI. In The Self-Dismembered Man, poet Donald Revell offers new English translations of the most powerful poems Apollinaire wrote during those years: poems of nascent surrealism, of combat and of war-weariness. Here, too, is Apollinaire's last testament, "The Pretty Redhead," a farewell to the epoch that he--as poet, convict, art-critic, artilleryman and boulevardier--did so much to conjure and sustain until his death on Armistice Day in 1918. Readers of Apollinaire's more familiar early work, Alcools (Wesleyan, 1995), will find here a darker and yet more tender poet, a poet of the broken world who shares entirely the world's catastrophe even as he praises to the end its glamour and its strange innocence. This English translation, facing the original French, illuminates Apollinaire's crucial and continuing influence on the European and American avant-garde. The volume includes a short translator's preface.

Author: Guillaume Apollinaire
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 03/23/2004
Pages: 152
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.52lbs
Size: 8.96h x 6.32w x 0.47d
ISBN: 9780819566911


Review Citation(s):
PW Notes and Reprints 04/26/2004 pg. 59
Publishers Weekly 04/26/2004

About the Author
GUILLAUME APOLLINAIRE (1880-1918) was a central figure in the Modernist movement in Europe where, with Matisse, he gave Cubism its name. His books include Calligrammes (1918) and Alcools (1913). DONALD REVELL is a poet and translator. His most recent Wesleyan book is Arcady (2002), which won the 2003 PEN Center USA Poetry Award.


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