Talk:Guillaume Apollinaire
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This article is very poor, a typical work of DW: no mention of his work, significance and impact. The French version appears to be much better. It would be nice if someone could translate their material. AxelBoldt 05:01 May 7, 2003 (UTC)
- I've not used the French version, but I've tried to plug in some stuff about his work. I daresay others know more about him that I, however. --Camembert
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[edit] another sex novel
I know that Don Juan has frequently been published as by Apollinaire but I think that there is an argument against it actually being written by him, mainly on stylistic grounds. I remember reading it years ago (in English, though), and it certainly didn't strike me as being the work of a noted writer. And that was before I realized that other people had said it wasn't really by Apollinaire. I suppose that if any of us cared to research this we could come up with some quotations from various people both pro and con on the subject.... Hayford Peirce 20:48, 24 Oct 2004 (UTC)
[edit] lead image
It is unclear what is the Henry R. painting doing in this article. Does it actually depict Apollienaire and his muse? - Alsandro · T · w:ka: Th · T 12:15, 24 May 2007 (UTC)
[edit] Guillaume Appollinaire`s mother
According the Finnish source (Väinö Kirstinä) Olga de Kostrowitzka was born in Helsinki, Grand Duchy of Finland in 1858 to a Polish born Imperial Russian Army Captain Michel - Apollinaire de Kostrowitzky. After the Polish Uprising the family moved to Italy where the Pope appointed in 1868 by then retired Michel - Apollinaire de Kostrowitsky to "Kammerherr" in Vatican. In Rome Olga gave birth for two sons in 1880 and 1882 of whose fathers are both still for sure uncertain. Mrs Kostrowitzka moved with his two sons in 1885 to Monaco. The older son Guillaume Albert Wladimir Alexandre Apollinaire de Kostrowitzky had three possible father candidates. Italian Benedict Abbe Don Romairo d´Aspermonti and Bishop of Monaco Theuret who had been in Rome by the time when Guillaume was born. Many believe Guillaume´s father to be Italian Army officer Francesco Fluigi d´Aspermont the brother of before mentioned Papal Prelate. Later Guillaume let some understood that his real father was the Papal Prelate (this according his mother who had sex with both brothers). In 1897 Olga left Monaco with her sons accompanied by Jewish "Uncle Jules" and they wandered here and there in Europe. This Odysseia ended in 1899 to Paris. It is widely believed that some real experiments during this wandering where used by Guillaume in his "Les Onze Mille Verges" particulary those described in Hospodar Vibescu´s sexual experiments in St. Petersburg but transferred in the novel to 1904. If this is the case this sexual parodia is the long waited first hand describtion of homosexuality among the upper Russian classes and key to the Ivan the Terrible´s relation with his son he murdered when the son refused to "baptize the egg in fresh bread" (Tatar version) or "fed and prepare to open the mind of the son" (Russian version). In addition the published old march song of Preobrazhensk Regiment in novel clears some missing details of old Russian Sodomia.
JN
[edit] The Molina da Silva book
I removed the book "La Gráce et le Maintien Français, 1902 (with Molina da Silva)" from the bibliography section; couldn't find any mention of it on the net on sites other than Wikipedia and its mirrors/ripoffs: just 5 hits on Google. --Jashiin (talk) 14:59, 17 May 2008 (UTC)
