La Place d’Apollinaire

edited by Anja Ernst and Paul Geyer

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Extent: 380 pages

Publisher: Classiques Garnier

Subjects: Cultural Studies

Series: Rencontres

Series volume number: 84

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(April 2015)

ISBN: 9782812425653

Price: $55.00

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This volume introduces us to a European Apollinaire who distills, ironizes, and surpasses the culture of Europe. His oeuvre is situated within and, at the same time, beyond, cultural tradition and, in this way, becomes the symbol of the uniqueness of both contemporary and future European identity.


This volume introduces us to a European Apollinaire who distills, ironizes, and surpasses the culture of Europe. His oeuvre is situated within and, at the same time, beyond, cultural tradition and, in this way, becomes the symbol of the uniqueness of both contemporary and future European identity.

  • Edited by Anja Ernst
  • Edited by Paul Geyer

Review - French Guillaume Apollinaire est devenu un classique de la litterature francaise, mais il echappe a toute categorisation de la critique litteraire. C'est le reve de tout poete vrai, et c'est ce qui constitue la fascination qu'il exerce sur nous jusqu'a aujourd'hui. Ce volume, dont les auteurs proviennent de differents pays europeens, nous fait decouvrir Apollinaire, qui voulait etre Francais a tout prix, en tant que premier poete europeen. Il distille toute la culture occidentale, l'ironise et la depasse. Son oeuvre se situe a la fois au-dedans et en-dehors de la tradition culturelle, et devient de cette facon le symbole de l'unicite de l'identite europeenne actuelle et future.
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