Review of “Desire” (1918)

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Guillaume Apollinaire (writer).

Read in 2022.

Read in its original language and in Swedish-language prose translation.

An assault at the hill of Mesnil, 1915-09-24.

If Apollinaire had telegraphed this as he wrote it, he would have thereby invented live tweeting.

References here: Modern utländsk lyrik (1975/1985).

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