The Heresiarch & Co

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 Surreal...