Cortège priapique ( Priapic Parade) appeared in 1925, Julie ou la rose ( Julie, or The Rose) in 1927, and Le verger des amours ( The Orchard of Love) in 1928. Less well-known are his three short collections of erotic poetry, like Caligrammes published after his untimely death from Spanish flu in November 1918.
English translations of both novels were published in 1922 by the Olympia Press under the title The Debauched Hospodar and Memoirs Of A Young Rakehell.Īpollinaire is best known as an experimental poet, especially for his typographical extravanganza Caligrammes. Another erotic novel attributed to him is Les exploits d’un jeune Don Juan ( The Exploits of a Young Don Juan), in which the fifteen-year-old hero fathers three children with various members of his entourage, including his aunt. Officially banned in France until 1970, Apollinaire never publicly acknowledged authorship of the novel. Much of his work is erotic, verging on the pornographic. In 1900 he wrote his first novel, Mirely, ou le petit trou pas cher ( Mirely, or The Cheap Little Hole), which is sadly lost. In 1907 he published the well-known erotic novel, Les onze mille verges, ou les amours d’un Hospodar ( The Eleven Thousand Rods, or The Story of a Hospodar). He was romantically involved with the writer Marie Laurencin, who is often identified as his muse.
He quickly became one of the most popular and active members of the artistic community of Paris, his friends and collaborators including Pablo Picasso, Henri Rousseau, Gertrude Stein, André Breton, Jean Cocteau, Erik Satie, Marc Chagall, Marcel Duchamp and Jean Metzinger. Born Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki in Rome, he was raised speaking French, Italian and Polish, and moved to France in his late teens, where he adopted his new name. Guillaume Apollinaire (1880–1918) was one of the most inventive, original and iconoclastic writers of the early twentieth century, among other achievements credited with coining the term Cubism in 1911 to describe the emerging art movement and Surrealism in 1917 to describe the musical compositions of Erik Satie. Apollinaire, a Cubist portrait by Jean Metzinger, 1911
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