B. Traven: A Mystery Solved
Will Wyatt’s 1979 TV documentary about his search for the real B. Traven [via Darran Anderson]
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The White Review writes: Hot on the heels of our June 1 launch at Daunt Books, we’d like you to join us at the Bethnal Green Working Men’s Club on Thursday 9 June from 7.30 till late for the first in a series of occasional and informal, but hopefully not too infrequent, literary soirees. Lee […]
Guillaume Apollinaire, Copywriter of the New
On an idle Tuesday morning, in the summer of 1911, the Mona Lisa vanished. For a time, nobody noticed the bare rectangular space next to the Titian in the Salon Carr é section of the Louvre. Eventually it came to the attention of a passing artist Louis B éroud who notified the museum’s security guards, who in a state of nonchalance or numbed disbelief, presumed it had been taken away to be cleaned, photographed or reframed. After all, the gallery’s director had often boasted to the press that there was more chance of the Notre Dame being stolen. B éroud persisted, eventually resorting to offering the guards a bribe to go look for it. The 400 year old painting had been stolen. The police were called, the museum was closed and an investigation launched, an investigation that would set into motion a series of events which would result in the untimely death of one of the greatest writers of the age, a writer by the name of Guillaume Apollinaire…
Darran Anderson reconsiders the life, legacy and ‘infernal joy’ of a forgotten modernist.