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Author:

Soupault, Philippe, 1897-1990, author.

Title:

The voyage of Horace Pirouelle / Philippe Souplault ; introduction by Jonathan P. Eburne ; translated by Justin Vicari.

Publisher:

Wakefield Press,

Copyright Date:

2023

Description:

xxvii, 66 pages ; 18 cm.

Subject:

1900-1999
Decadence (Literary movement)--France.
French fiction--20th century.
Decadence (Literary movement)
French fiction
France

Other Authors:

Vicari, Justin, 1968- translator.
Eburne, Jonathan P. (Jonathan Paul)

Notes:

Conceived in a hospital bed in 1917, then written a few months later after his first and fateful encounter with Lautréamont's Maldoror, Philippe Soupault's novella, The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle, preceded the author's involvement with the Parisian Dada movement and the adventure of surrealism he would later launch with his friends. Inspired by a Liberian schoolmate's sudden departure for Greenland on a whim and his subsequent disappearance into that distant country, Soupault imagines his alter ego's adventures as entries in a journal both personal and fictional. Adopted by an Inuit tribe, Pirouelle drifts from one encounter to another, from one casual murder to another, until his life of liberty and spontaneity leads him to stasis at the edge of existence. Floating between the romantic legacy of Arthur Rimbaud's abandonment of literature and the banality and loss of personality and morality in the adventurer's abandonment of society, The Voyage of Horace Pirouelle charts out a troubled tribute to wanderlust and the acte gratuit.

ISBN:

9781939663832
1939663830

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1360289341

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)