Octaves e-bog
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In Montparnasse between the wars, Kiki, ';Queen of Montparnasse', danced and sang; Prevert created Baptiste there; Desnos travelled astrally, then woke to harvest the crop; painters Kisling, Pascin, Foujita, Modigliani, Derain and others laboured and partied there; Bronia came from Holland, destined to meet Radiguet, Cocteau's Boy Wonder; later she would marry Rene Clair; Satie opened umbrell...
E-bog
51,10 DKK
Forlag
Ginninderra Press
Udgivet
1 februar 2018
Længde
132 sider
Genrer
Poetry by individual poets
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781760414900
In Montparnasse between the wars, Kiki, ';Queen of Montparnasse', danced and sang; Prevert created Baptiste there; Desnos travelled astrally, then woke to harvest the crop; painters Kisling, Pascin, Foujita, Modigliani, Derain and others laboured and partied there; Bronia came from Holland, destined to meet Radiguet, Cocteau's Boy Wonder; later she would marry Rene Clair; Satie opened umbrellas there, always hoping for rain. There are triumphs, infatuations, liaisons, marriages, deaths. As the Carousel of Montparnasse turns, John Watson deftly notes its music like Anton Walbrook in La Ronde or Jean Renoir in Les Enfants du Paradis. The octave ';at once same and different, like a waterfall' suggests the verse form, as unvarying as Ravel's Bolero and orchestrated in two thousand tetrameters