Anicet or the Panorama: A Dadaist Novel (Atlas Anti-Classics:

Anicet or the Panorama: A Dadaist Novel (Atlas Anti-Classics: Dadaist)

This novel, much of it written amidst the horror of the trenches when Louis Aragon (1897â€“1982) was a medical orderly during the First World War, demonstrates the chasm that separates the works of the artists and writers of what would become Dadaism and those, say, of the English War poets. In a world of moral destitution beyond any rational forbearance, what can remain? How can one write at all, let alone something as absurd as a novel? Anicet or the Panorama is both a roman Ã clef (Aragonâ€™s friends, including AndrÃ© Breton, are recognizable), and a novel of the total liquidation of a culture that had allowed this to come to pass: even literary heroes must be confronted and superseded. As fast-paced, funny and surprising as a Hollywood silent movie, its narrative of fabulous crimes and scandals sweeps through a panorama of Paris society as its protagonist Anicet becomes subordinated to the mysterious Mire, a woman who is the incarnation of â€œmodern Beauty.â€ Anicet is seduced into a life of crime, which he accepts with nonchalance and an ironic integrity that he maintains to the bitter end of his journey of self-immolation.
Aragonâ€™s precisely crafted, sardonic prose reveals a world that is no more than a tragic puppet show. This furious tempest of a book launched Aragonâ€™s career and is one the cornerstones of the Paris Dada movement.
Country USA
Brand Atlas Press GB
Manufacturer Atlas Press
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber RKC2009308675
ReleaseDate 2016-07-26
UnitCount 1
EANs 9781900565691

Country	USA
Brand	Atlas Press GB
Manufacturer	Atlas Press
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	RKC2009308675
ReleaseDate	2016-07-26
UnitCount	1
EANs	9781900565691

Anicet or the Panorama: A Dadaist Novel (Atlas Anti-Classics: Dadaist)

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