Apollinaire and the International Avant-Garde FROM THE PUBLISHER
The following study seeds to analyze Guillaume Apollinaire's literary and artistic reception by members of the European and American avant-gardes during the early twentieth century.
FROM THE CRITICS
Library Journal
Born Wilhelm de Kostrowitsky, the illegitimate son of a Russian Polish woman and a Vatican nobleman, Apollinaire was a champion of the avant-garde in French poetry and had enormous influence on the international avant-garde despite dying young (at age 38) of Asian flu and a head wound sustained in the trenches during World War I. Organizing his material well, Bohn (foreign languages, Illinois State Univ.) details Apollinaire's international influence on poets and literary movements in several regions, specifically Great Britain, North and South America, Germany, Catalonia, Spain, and Mexico. Bohn acknowledges that Apollinaire's influence did not extend beyond his lifetime, except in Latin America, where his influence prevailed until 1930. Bohn's analysis should prove an invaluable resource to all scholars of avant-garde literature.-Robert T. Ivey, Univ. of Memphis
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