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Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism by Philippe Soupault (Paperback, 2016)

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The collection ends with essays on two modernist forerunners, Charles Baudelaire and Henri Rousseau. "Andrew Joron, author ofTrance Archive: New and Selected Poems. Author: Philippe Soupault. "Paul Auster, author ofReport from the Interior.

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The gentlest of renegades, the most tender of the French avant-garde poets, the co-author of the first literary work of automatic writing (The Magnetic Fields, 1919), Philippe Soupault was a central figure in both the Dada and Surrealist movements but throughout his long life walked under no banner except the one of artistic freedom. In this previously untranslated book, he gives us a collection of richly remembered portraits of some of his best-loved friends from the old days of the new modernism. A young disciple of the short-lived Apollinaire, the translator of Joyce's Anna Livia Plurabelle, the son of one of Proust's jeunes filles en fleurs, Soupault crossed paths with nearly everyone from that time whose name is still remembered today. As a glimpse into that time, these lost portraits are invaluable-and often deeply moving. The chapter about Proust alone is worth the price of admission, and then there is more, much more packed into the pages of this small, indelible book. Bravo to Alan Bernheimer for having given it to us. -Paul Auster, author of Report from the Interior Poets must encourage each other because time is indifferent to the lives that flow through it. Time is what we are made of, but we are a rare school of fish that can see, in Rimbaud's sense, the substance that everyone disregards even as it dissolves them. We have to be young because we are the only force that can slow time down to reveal the beauty of its devastation. Reading Alan Bernheimer's splendid translation of Soupault's memoir, I forgot that it was a translation, that it was Soupault writing or talking about another time, about his friends of one century past. I read myself into these vivid and virile (so, sue me!) assaults on time, and Time stopped. -Andrei Condrescu, author of The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess First published in 1963, this charming collection of reminiscences by surrealist poet Philippe Soupault offers warm, generous, appreciative profiles of some of his famous contemporaries. ... Sharp, stylish, and anecdotal, the book offers a fresh glimpse into a fertile artistic world. -Kirkus Reviews In [Alan] Bernheimer's graceful translations, Soupault's little reflections on many of his contemporaries give readers the poet's own insights into a host of literary giants ... For anyone interested in early 20th-century literary and artistic movements, Bernheimer's translation is a worthy event. -Publishers Weekly Soupault's lively, up-close account underlines the astonishing vitality and versatility of the avant-garde he helped to create and shape. ... Despite his preference for poetry, Soupault writes prose with gusto and elan. He beautifully conveys the passage of time and its impact on individuals and their relationships. ... Lost Profiles captures the restlessness and aspiration of a generation of writers for whom received wisdom was cant, but who could never shake their own self-doubt and propensity for disenchantment. -Paul Maziar, Los Angeles Review of Books Lost Profiles offers witty and unexpurgated views of a daring era in the Arts when the world became shatteringly altered. These are the memories shared some forty odd years later by one actively involved with multiple fellow players in various scenes of the time. It's a delightful, thought-provoking read that will have those who are already familiar with the material returning to favorite books, while those who are unfamiliar will be busy becoming acquainted with marvelous characters from a key period in world literary history. Even more importantly, Lost Profiles signals a necessary reminder of how much joy there is to be found in discovering terrific, epochal texts freshly translated. -Patrick Dunagan, The Northwest Review of Books [C]harming ... a brief account by a perceptive writer who was on the scene when modernity was young. -National Post The attraction of this little book pivots on the first word of its subtitle.

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Publisher
City Lights Books
ISBN-13
9780872867277
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Book Title
Lost Profiles: Memoirs of Cubism, Dada, and Surrealism
Author
Philippe Soupault
Format
Paperback
Language
English
Topic
Memorials, Poetry, Literary Theory
Publication Year
2016
Genre
Biographies & True Stories
Number of Pages
118 Pages

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184mm
Item Width
127mm
Item Weight
127g

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Philippe Soupault
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United States

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