Les Onze Mille Verges
1907
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Synopsis Les Onze Mille Verges tells the story of a Romanian prince who comes to Paris in search of fame, excitement, and sexual adventures. Leaving France, he travels to St Petersburg and ends up in the battle-torn Manchuria of the Russo-Japanese war. From the Back Cover For nearly seventy years this novel remained a legend before being published in 1973. In 1907 Guillaume Apollinaire, one of the most original and influential poets of the twentieth century turned his hand to the novel. Strapped for cash, he produced two books for the clandestine market, the finer one of these was Les Onze Mille Verges. One of the most masterful and hilarious novels of all time, it was once owlishly pronounced by Picasso to be Apollinaire's masterpiece. Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918) was an art critic and poet who had significant influence on the French avant-garde of the early 20th Century. An important modernist figure, he is frequently linked with such diverse movements as Cubism and Futurism and is said to have coined the term Surrealism.
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Guillaume Apollinaire
Author · 22 books
Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire, was a French poet, writer, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother. Among the foremost poets of the early 20th century, he is credited with coining the word surrealism and writing one of the earliest works described as surrealist, the play Les Mamelles de Tirésias (1917, later used as the basis for an opera in 1947).
