Guillaume Apollinaire

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918)

Wilhelm Albert Wodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki, known as Guillaume Apollinaire was a French poet, playwright, and art critic born in Italy to a Polish mother. Among the foremost poets of the early 20th century, he is credited with coining the word Surrealism and writing one of the earliest works described as surrealist, the play The Breasts of Tiresias (1917, used as the basis for a 1947 opera). Two years after being wounded in World War I, he died in the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 at age 38.

Guillaume Apollinaire's Books:

[Alcools | Les Onze Mille Verges | Les Trois Don Juan | Lhrsiarque Et Cie | Memoirs Of A Young Rakehell]