The Flight of Eagles

by Jeremy Moczarski

Apollinaire, perhaps the leading French poet of the 20th Century, playwright and art-critic, contemporary of Picasso, Braque, Rousseau, Duchamp and Erik Satie, inventor of the term Cubism and a forefather of Surrealism, had extraordinary origins, his own not so distant realities that reflected the struggle between dominant geopolitical forces that only ended with the outcome of WW1.

More than one hundred years have passed since the death of Apollinaire, at the point at which the great empires of Austria-Hungary, France, Germany and Russia and their autocratic rulers, the Habsburgs, Bonapartes, Hohenzollerns and Romanovs, who controlled much of this narrative, were pushed aside. It is time for the Eagles to fly.

On 10 September 2020 the State Museum of the History of Belarusian Literature (Государственный музей истории белорусской литературы), in Minsk opened the Kostrovitsky literary and documentary exposition, timed to coincide with the 140th anniversary of the birth of Apollinaire. The National Historical Archives of Belarus, the Belarusian State Archives-Museum of Literature and Art, the National Library of Belarus, the Republican Centre of National Culture and the Predmestie Gallery took part in the creation of the exposition. This book (described by the late Uladzimir Shchasny, Chairman of the National Commission of Belarus for UNESCO, chief organiser of the exposition, as a "special book"), together with the titles "Poetry in the blood" and "A Man of Power and a Goblin on a Fork" by this author were featured in this exposition.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B096TRSXT5
• ISBN13: 9798519434768
• Release Date: September 2018
• Publisher: Independently Published
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.63 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"