By Guillaume Apollinaire. Translated by Rémy Inglis Hall.
Apollinaire's first book: a collection of outrageous short stories about heretics, renegade mystics and criminal religious fanatics,
The Heresiarch & Co. was Apollinaire's first book, and reportedly remained his favorite. Making full use of his encyclopedic knowledge of obscure historical, ecclesiastical and geographic information, Apollinaire's stories rely neither on the dream nor on unlikely juxtaposition, but instead represent an approach that André Breton called a "formula" for Surrealism; its "music," Breton famously wrote, is "like gold pebbles rolled in a torrent." Apollinaire himself wrote of The Heresiarch & Co., "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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FORMAT: Pbk, 6 x 8 in. / 168 pgs. LIST PRICE: U.S. $13.95 LIST PRICE: CANADA $18.95 GBP £12.50 ISBN: 9781878972033 PUBLISHER: Exact Change AVAILABLE: 9/30/2009 DISTRIBUTION: D.A.P. RETAILER DISC: TRADE PUBLISHING STATUS: Active AVAILABILITY: In stock TERRITORY: WORLD
Published by Exact Change. By Guillaume Apollinaire. Translated by Rémy Inglis Hall.
Apollinaire's first book: a collection of outrageous short stories about heretics, renegade mystics and criminal religious fanatics,
The Heresiarch & Co. was Apollinaire's first book, and reportedly remained his favorite. Making full use of his encyclopedic knowledge of obscure historical, ecclesiastical and geographic information, Apollinaire's stories rely neither on the dream nor on unlikely juxtaposition, but instead represent an approach that André Breton called a "formula" for Surrealism; its "music," Breton famously wrote, is "like gold pebbles rolled in a torrent." Apollinaire himself wrote of The Heresiarch & Co., "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.
