Le flâneur des deux rives
Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) "Les hommes ne se séparent de rien sans regret, et même les lieux, les choses et les gens qui les rendirent le plus malheureux, ils ne les abandonnent point sans douleur. C'est ainsi qu'en 1912, je ne vous quittai pas sans amertume, lointain Auteuil, quartier charmant de mes grandes tristesses. Je n'y devais revenir qu'en l'an 1916 pour être trépané à la Villa Molière. Lorsque je m'installai à Auteuil en 1909, la rue Raynouard ressemblait encore à ce qu'elle était du temps de Balzac. Elle est bien laide maintenant. Il reste la rue Berton, qu'éclairent des lampes à pétrole, mais bientôt, sans doute, on changera cela. C'est une vieille rue située entre les quartiers de Passy et d'Auteuil. Sans la guerre elle aurait disparu ou du moins serait devenue méconnaissable. La municipalité avait décidé d'en modifier l'aspect général, de l'élargir et de la rendre carrossable. On eût supprimé ainsi un des coins les plus pittoresques de Paris. C'était primitivement un chemin qui, des berges de la Seine, montait au sommet des coteaux de Passy à travers les vignobles. La physionomie de la rue n'a guère changé depuis le temps où Balzac la suivait lorsque, pour échapper à quelque importun, il allait prendre la patache de Saint-Cloud qui l'amenait à Paris." Court recueil de promenades mélancoliques de Guillaume Apollinaire à travers un Paris insolite voire imaginaire et au hasard des personnes rencontrées.
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Guillaume Apollinaire
Guillaume Apollinaire ( ə-POL-in-AIR, French: ; born Wilhelm Albert Włodzimierz Aleksander Apolinary Kostrowicki; 26 August 1880 – 9 November 1918) was a Polish-French poet, playwright, short story writer, novelist and art critic of Polish, Swiss and Italian descent.
Apollinaire is considered one of the foremost poets of the early 20th century, as well as one of the most impassioned defenders of Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism. He is credited with coining the term "Cubism" in 1911 to describe the emerging art movement, the term Orphism in 1912, and the term "Surrealism" in 1917 to describe the works of Erik Satie. He wrote poems without punctuation, in his attempt to be resolutely modern in both form and subject. Apollinaire wrote one of the earliest Surrealist literary works, the play The Breasts of Tiresias (1917), which became the basis for Francis Poulenc's 1947 opera Les mamelles de Tirésias.
Influenced by Symbolist poetry in his youth, he was admired during his lifetime by the young poets who later formed the nucleus of the Surrealist group (Breton, Aragon, Soupault). He revealed very early on an originality that freed him from any school of influence and made him one of the precursors of the literary revolution of the first half of the 20th century. His art is not based on any theory, but on a simple principle: the act of creating must come from the imagination, from intuition, because it must be as close as possible to life, to nature, to the environment, and to the human being.
Apollinaire was also active as a journalist and art critic for Le Matin, L'Intransigeant, L'Esprit nouveau, Mercure de France, and Paris Journal. In 1912 Apollinaire cofounded Les Soirées de Paris, an artistic and literary magazine.
Two years after being wounded in World War I, Apollinaire died during the Spanish flu pandemic of 1918 and was recognized as "Fallen for France" (Mort pour la France) because of his commitment during the war.
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