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This book tries to encompass the life's achievement of Pierre Albert-Birot in art, poetry, and prose. This book is a rich and exhaustively researched study of a fascinating figure and a most original mind. The volume also attempts to encompass a life's achievement and to view globally Albert-Birot's artistic, poetic, and prose productions. As such, this is an important contribution to the study and knowledge of French literature of the first half of the twentieth century and to interdisciplinary studies. It is of interest not only to specialists in French literature, but also to art historians, literary historians, and those interested in comparative aesthetics.
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Like its author, Grabinoulor has been rediscovered only in the last few decades. Originally published in SIC in 1919 and praised by such writers as Apollinaire, Celine, Max Jacob, and Raymond Queneau, it did not appear in English until 1986. Smart, joyous, playfully philosophical and completely without despair, the novel follows the character Grabinoulor--"the happiest man in the world"--a child-like, satyric, and comical Parisian as he visits other planets, travels through time, and finds poetry wherever he goes.
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Un artificier de la création, un homme rare parmi les poètes et les artistes de son époque : tel est le jugement que portait Apollinaire sur Pierre Albert-Birot en 1917. Venu tard à la poésie, après une première carrière de peintre et de sculpteur et une longue période d'insatisfaction, Pierre Albert-Bicot (1876-1967) fut un infatigable expérimentateur. Tour à tour éditeur, imprimeur, homme de théâtre, scénariste, mais avant tout et partout poète, il fut l'auteur d'une oeuvre à bien des égards pionnière. Fondateur de la revue SIC (1916-1919), il y accueillit les créateurs les plus audacieux de son époque : Apollinaire, Soupault, Reverdy, Tzara, Picasso, Zadkine... Dans s...