Short list of early French Avant-Garde fiction
Explore a curated short list of early French Avant-Garde fiction books, featuring groundbreaking works that redefined modern literature. Discover iconic titles and authors from this revolutionary movement.
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Selected Writings of Guillaume Apollinaire
by Guillaume Apollinaire
A bilingual, illustrated edition of The Selected Writings of Apollinaire, the only representative collection in English translation, with a comprehensive critical Introduction by the translator, …
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The Poet Assassinated
by Guillaume Apollinaire
The poet Apollinaire was modernism's first champion, and after his early death in 1918, he became its first saint.
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The Supermale
by Alfred Jarry
The act of love is of no importance, since it can be performed indefinitely.' With that remark, the gentleman adventurer Andre Marcueil sets into motion …
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The Ubu Plays
by Alfred Jarry
Alfred Jarry is regarded as one of the founders of modern avant-garde theatre-- "Dada, Surrealism, Pataphysics, Theatre of Cruelty, the Absurd--all owe a debt to …
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Complete Poems
by Blaise Cendrars
"At last! A superb translation of one of the great and greatly neglected Modernist poets! The map of Modernist poetry will never be quite the …
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Exploits & Opinions of Doctor Faustroll, Pataphysician
by Alfred Jarry
The singular novel by the legendary author of the play, UBU ROI, is a book that can only be compared to Rabelais or Sterne. FAUSTROLL …
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The Adventures of Telemachus
by Aragon
This is the first paperback edition in English of one of the most important and entertaining works of Surrealist fiction. Aragon's 1922 novel boldly appropriates …