Roger Shattuck Books for Libraries Press, 1968 - Apollinaire, Guillaume, 1880-1918 - 397 pages 0 Reviews. If someone were to pick 4 such people in Pittsburgh (or any other city) now, who wd they pick? I'd like to read a bk that gradually expands out from "The Banquet Years" - these 4, then 12 more, then 16 to the 16th - eventually describing in detail everyone alive in the city during those 3 decades. The Banquet Years the Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I. It's reassuring to know that even the most obscure person can have a long-term impact just b/c of what keeps them in obscurity while they're alive: their full-blown 'inaccessible' inventiveness. Shattuck does a great job of establishing the lasting significance of these people.
The intertwining of these personalities creates a meta-personality for Parisian culture that's god-like in its crazed creativity. Shattuck clearly knows & loves the subject & writes about it well. The Banquet Years the Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I. Rousseau & Apollinaire not so much so but still of interest. The definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattucks classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn. Satie & Jarry were both esp important to me.
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