Guillaume Apollinaire (Critical Survey of Poetry, Second Revised Edition)

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Besides poetry, Guillaume Apollinaire wrote a number of prose works. Among the most significant of his short stories and novellas are L’Enchanteur pourrissant (1909; the putrescent enchanter), published by Henry Kahnweiler and illustrated with woodcuts by André Derain; L’Hérésiarque et Cie. (1910; The Heresiarch and Co., 1965), a contender for the Prix Goncourt; and Le Poète assassiné (1916; The Poet Assassinated, 1923). They are contained in the Pléiade edition, Œuvres en prose (1977), edited by Michel...

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