adventureBy Aaron Peck

Oct 23, 2024 | the-tls.co.uk | Aaron Peck |Martin Beagles |Terri Apter |adventureBy Aaron Peck

Pansexual orgies, extremely long discourses on Mormonism, cruel and perverse Russian counts, odes to the diversity and chaos of Paris, portraits of famous painters – Seated Woman: A chronicle of France and America, here translated by Timothy Mathews, was Guillaume Apollinaire’s attempt to take stock of the destruction caused by the Great War and to imagine what kind of world might be possible in its wake.