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Bezig met laden... Jacques Vaché and the Roots of Surrealism : including Vaché's War Letters & Other Writings (2008)door Franklin Rosemont, Jacques Vaché
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Surprisingly little is available on this incredibly influential figure of the early avant garde. As ambiguous in life as in his writings, this book is more of a theoritcal discourse on Umour than it is an actual biography (for the simple reason that not much biographical information exists for the short 23 years of his life). Very well written and researched, it is valuable no only for its direct content on the life and theory of Vache, but for the cultural perspective that unfolds throughout the telling of his tale. A minor caveat would be that there does exist a bit of a sectarian bias to some of the opinions put forth by the writer, being a member of the Chicago surrealist group himself. Nonetheless I greatly enjoyed it and have already ordered another of his books "Juice is stranger than fiction," on T Bone Slim, who I learned of in this book which as such also works as a great reference work for finding obscure figures and writers in the history of arts and letters. ( ) geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Literary Nonfiction. Fiction. Biography. Conscripted into the French Army in World War One, Jacques Vache soon became not only the unsurpassed champion of "Desertion from Within," but also the master of "Disservice with Diligence." His post-humous slim book, War Letters (1919)--included in the present volume--is a classic of surrealist anti-militarism and subversion. Renowned as the Inventor of Umour (Humour without the H), Vache was--along with Isidore Ducasse, Comte de Lautreamont--the major inspirer of Andre Breton and the surrealist revolution. The first of its kind in English, this book chronicles Vache's boundless originality, creative nonconformity, revolutionary morality (or umoral-ity), and his all-out turn-the-world-upside-down hilarity. Welcomed by Andre Breton himself into the Paris Surrealist Group in 1966, Franklin Rosemont took part in the Paris group's activities for several months and went on to co-organize the Chicago Surrealist Group later that year. Rosemont (1943-2009) died earlier this year. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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