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The autobiographical and the real in Apollinaire's war poetry.(Critical Essay)
[...] man goes only perpendicularly against
his fate. He was neither formed to know that
other nor compiled of its conspiracy.
(Djuna Barnes, Nightwood) (1)
The historical dislocation produced by the outbreak of war in 1914 poses a radical challenge to the ahistoricity assumed in Modernist writing. (2) The sense of a sudden break in the experiential narrative of human lives seeks consolation in textual narratives which are unbroken, monological, and chronology-bound: narratives in retreat from experimentalist values of spatiality, synchronicity, plurality, and inwardness. The richly textured war poetry of Apollinaire is a striking example of Modernist writing engaging with history and exploring its representability. (3) In the 'Poemes de la guerre' of Calligrammes (1918) the pressure to account for the historical, to reconstruct the realities of soldierly experience, is confronted in an autobiographical project which situates the fiction of the writing/written self in the nexus of history viewed, not as objective, transparent, and absolute, but as subjective and provisional. (4)
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