The Fictions of Arthur Cravan: Poetry, Boxing and Revolution

di Dafydd Jones (Autore)

Manchester University Press, 2019

The legendary poet and boxer Arthur Cravan, a fleeting figure on the periphery of early twentieth-century European avant-gardism, is frequently invoked as proto-Dada and Surrealist exemplar. Yet he remains an insubstantial phenomenon, not seen since 1918, lost through historical interstices, clouded in drifting untruths. This study processes philosophical positions into a practical recovery – from nineteenth-century Nietzsche to twentieth-century Deleuze – with thoughts on subjectivity, metaphor, representation and multiplicity. From fresh readings and new approaches – of Cravan’s first published work as a manifesto of simulation; of contributors to his Paris review Maintenant as impostures for the Delaunays; and of the conjuring of Cravan in Picabia’s elegiac film Entr’acte – The fictions of Arthur Cravan concludes with the absent poet-boxer’s eventual casting off into a Surrealist legacy, and his becoming what metaphor is: a means to represent the world. -- .

• Autore: Dafydd Jones
• Editore: Manchester University Press
• Anno: 2019
• Rilegatura: Hardback
• Pagine: 336 p.
• Dimensioni: 234 x 156 mm
• Peso: 649 gr.
• EAN: 9781526133236

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