The Heresiarch & Co.

by Apollinaire, Guillaume; Hall, Remy Inglis

• ISBN13: 9781878972033
• ISBN10: 1878972030
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 1996-05-30
• Publisher: Distributed Art Pub Inc

Summary

The French writer known as Guillaume Apollinaire (Wilhelm Apollinairs Kostrowicki, b. 1880 in Rome to a Polish mother and an unknown Father), is most widely remembered as a groundbreaking modernist poet, author of the internationally influential collections Alcools and Calligrammes. But in France, Apollinaire's prose has always been equally well regarded. This volume of short stories about heretics, provincial romantics, and adventurers in crime was Apollinaire's literary debut in 1910, and only just lost the Prix Goncourt that year to Colette's La Vagabonde. Making full use of the author's knowledge of obscure historical, ecclesiastical, and geographical information, these stories rely neither on the dream, nor on juxtaposition, but nonetheless represent a technique that Andr Breton would later call a "formula" for Surrealism - producing a "music... like gold pebbles rolled in a torrent." Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Publisher's Note	p. vii
The Wandering Jew	p. 1
The Sacrilege	p. 13
The Latin Jew	p. 20
The Heresiarch	p. 31
Infallibility	p. 41
Three Stories of Divine Punishment	p. 46
Simon Macus	p. 54
Otmika	p. 62
Que Vlo-ve?	p. 74
The Rose of Hildesheim, or The Treasure of the Three Magi	p. 86
The Piedmontese Pilgrims	p. 92
The Disappearance of Honoré Subrac	p. 100
The Sailor from Amsterdam	p. 105
Story of a Virtuous Family, a Wicker Basket, and a Gallstone	p. 110
The Poets' Napkin	p. 122
The False Amphion, or The Stories and Adventures of Baron D'Ormesan	p. 126
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