novel2018
Shells Played Pigeon Fly
PublisherActes Sud
Pages176
Year2018
ISBN978-2-330-09065-4
Synopsis
The book recounts the 24 hours preceding the shell impact that would wound Guillaume Apollinaire. Raphaël Jerusalmy takes us alongside the poet and his men in a cruel and thrilling countdown that shows Apollinaire, the artist, the combatant, the soldier of art, tracking poetry even in battle.
Excerpt
March 17, 1916: A cruel and thrilling countdown of the 24 hours before Guillaume Apollinaire receives a shell fragment to his temple in the trenches of Bois des Buttes.