The Heresiarch and Co.
1910
First Published
3.65
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195
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A collection of outrageous short stories about heretics, provincial romantics, and adventurers in crime, The Heresiarch & Co. was Apollinaire's first book, and reportedly remained his favourite. Making full use of his encyclopedic knowledge of obscure historical, ecclesiastical, and geographical information, Apollinaire's stories rely neither on the dream, nor on juxtaposition, but nonetheless represent a technique that André Breton called a "formula" for Surrealism; its "music," he said, is "like gold pebbles rolled in a torrent." Apollinaire himself wrote about IThe Heresiarch Co.,/I "This is a book for those who love literature, powerful and disturbing, strange and logical. The author, amid so many fantastic, tragic, and sometimes sublime inventions, intoxicates himself with a charming erudition with which he also intoxicates his readers."
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Author
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).
