Le Style Apollinaire: The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire

by Louis Zukofsky, Serge Gavronsky (Editor), Serge Gavronsky (Other), Jean Daive (Other)

Overview

First English/ French edition of a seminal work.

The work of Louis Zukofsky has been gaining exposure as a new generation of poets and scholars "rediscover" the American avant-garde tradition. Concurrently, interest in Guillaume Apollinaire's work has grown in recent years as English departments re-explore international modernism. In this extended essay, one of the American literary giants of the 20th Century provides deep readings of the French modernist's entire oeuvre and provides insight into his own formative aesthetic. Two sections of the essay were published in Westminster Magazine in 1932; the complete book is available here for the first time in English. The book builds its arguments with extensive quotations from Apollinaire's poems in their orignal French; this bilingual edition is the latest offering in what Publisher's Weekly has hailed as "an essential series."

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780819566201
Publisher:	Wesleyan University Press
Publication date:	02/12/2004
Series:	Wesleyan Centennial Edition of the Complete Critical Writings of Louis Zukofsky Series
Edition description:	Bilingual French-English ed.
Pages:	296
Product dimensions:	6.00(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.67(d)

About the Author

LOUIS ZUKOFSKY (1904-1978) is widely considered one of the primary forerunners of contemporary avant-garde writing. His many books include "A," Prepositions +, and A Test of Poetry. SERGE GAVRONSKY is Professor and Chair of the French Department at Barnard College. JEAN DAIVE is known as one the important French avant-garde poets. His first book, Décimale blanche (1967), was widely translated.

Table of Contents

Louis Zukofsky et le style autobiographique - Jean Davie
Guillaume Apollianire Subsumed Under Louis Zukofsky's Gaze: "...listening receptively..." - Serge Gavronsky
How to read the Text
The Writing of Guillaume Apollinaire
The Stroller
There Is
The Poet Resurrected
And Co.

What People are Saying About This

Donald Revell

"Le Style Apollinaire is a beautiful palimpset, a vivid text, a book of Baroque intensity, demanding and playful."
— Donald Revell, translator of Apollinaire's Alcools

Rosmarie Waldrop

"An idiosyncratic book of great interest. Many of Zukofsky's statements about Apollinaire go beyond their ostensible subject, toward developing a contemporary aesthetic. An aesthetic of the inclusive and manifold, rather than of unity—and extremely important for American poetry."

From the Publisher

"Le Style Apollinaire is a beautiful palimpset, a vivid text, a book of Baroque intensity, demanding and playful."—Donald Revell, translator of Apollinaire's Alcools

"Le Style Apollinaire is a beautiful palimpset, a vivid text, a book of Baroque intensity, demanding and playful."—Donald Revell, translator of Apollinaire's Alcools

""An idiosyncratic book of great interest. Many of Zukofsky's statements about Apollinaire go beyond their ostensible subject, toward developing a contemporary aesthetic. An aesthetic of the inclusive and manifold, rather than of unity—and extremely important for American poetry.""—Rosmarie Waldrop, author of The Reproduction of Profiles

Editorial Reviews

"Le Style Apollinaire is a beautiful palimpset, a vivid text, a book of Baroque intensity, demanding and playful."—Donald Revell, translator of Apollinaire's Alcools

"Le Style Apollinaire is a beautiful palimpset, a vivid text, a book of Baroque intensity, demanding and playful."—Donald Revell, translator of Apollinaire's Alcools

""An idiosyncratic book of great interest. Many of Zukofsky's statements about Apollinaire go beyond their ostensible subject, toward developing a contemporary aesthetic. An aesthetic of the inclusive and manifold, rather than of unity—and extremely important for American poetry.""—Rosmarie Waldrop, author of The Reproduction of Profiles

From the Publisher