Atmospheres Apollinaire

Beach Holme is proud to reissue this fabulous novel, nominated for a Governor General's Award in its original edition with Porcupine's Quill.Paris, the City of Light, was once the scene of a brilliant magnesium flare, host to the belle epoque from 1900 to 1914. Tempting poets, painters, writers and composers from across Europe, the city relied on one man to move among them all-Guillaume Apollinaire. His contemporaries called him brilliant, mad, whimsical. He was the bastard son of an Italian cavalry officer and a Polish woman addicted to gambling, but nevertheless let it be rumoured around Paris he was son to the Pope.Friend and confidant of Picasso and many other painters of the period, Apollinaire invented the terms cubism and surrealism. He discovered the works of Marquis de Sade, wrote pornographic novels of his own, and volumes of poetry. He fought for France in the Great War and returned alive only to die during the influenza epidemic that swept Paris in that same year.Frutkin, Mark is the author of 'Atmospheres Apollinaire' with ISBN 9780888783912 and ISBN 0888783914.