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Les Onze Mille Verges or, the Amorous Adventures of Prince Mony Vibescu (Peter Owen Modern Classic) (Paperback)

by Guillaume Apollinaire (Author), Nina Rootes (Translator)
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  • Paperback: 128 pages
  • Publisher: Peter Owen Ltd; New edition edition (18 Jan 2001)
  • Language English
  • ISBN-10: 0720611008
  • ISBN-13: 978-0720611007
  • Product Dimensions: 18 x 12.2 x 0.8 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon.co.uk Sales Rank: 561,255 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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Les Onze Mille Verges tells the story of a Romanian prince who comes to Paris in search of fame, excitement and sexual adventures. Leaving France, he travels to St Petersburg and ends up in the battle-torn Manchuria of the Russo-Japanese war.


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For nearly seventy years this novel remained a legend before being published in 1973.

In 1907 Guillaume Apollinaire, one of the most original and influential poets of the twentieth century turned his hand to the novel. Strapped for cash, he produced two books for the clandestine market, the finer one of these was Les Onze Mille Verges.

One of the most masterful and hilarious novels of all time, it was once owlishly pronounced by Picasso to be Apollinaire's masterpiece.

Guillaume Apollinaire (1880 - 1918) was an art critic and poet who had significant influence on the French avant-garde of the early 20th Century. An important modernist figure, he is frequently linked with such diverse movements as Cubism and Futurism and is said to have coined the term Surrealism.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Outrageously filthy and unforgettable, 5 April 2008
By A. D. K. Miller "c500" (London) - See all my reviews
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Lez Onze Milles Verges chronicles the sexual adventures of the Romanian pseudo-Prince Mony Vibescu, without doubt one of the most hedonistic and sadistic "heroes" in literary history. It is one long f_kfest from which the reader emerges quite confused emotionally. In parts the book is absolutely hilarious - one part made me laugh harder than I ever have reading a book - and others are extremely disturbing. If you can get past the shock factor of some parts - the author appears to be attempting to make each chapter more outrageous than the last - then you will be rewarded with some great laughs and a lingering historical sub-plot which comes into focus right at the end and raises the question of exactly what Apollinaire is really up to here. Not for everyone, but if you cannot enjoy this then in my opinion you take sex - and life - far, far too seriously. Brilliant!
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