The fictions of Arthur Cravan : poetry, boxing and revolution / Dafydd Jones.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jones, Dafydd, 1965- author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cravan, Arthur, 1887-1920?--Criticism and interpretation.

Cravan, Arthur.

Surrealism.

Dadaism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (xvi, 317 pages) : digital, PDF file(s).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Manchester : Manchester University Press, 2019.

Summary:

The legendary poet and boxer Arthur Cravan, a fleeting figure on the periphery of early twentieth-century European avant-gardism, is frequently invoked as proto-Dada and Surrealist exemplar. Yet he remains an insubstantial phenomenon, not seen since 1918, clouded in drifting untruths. This study processes philosophical positions into a practical recovery - from nineteenth-century Nietzsche to twentieth-century Deleuze - with thoughts on subjectivity, metaphor, representation and multiplicity. From fresh readings and new approaches - of Cravan's first published work as a manifesto of simulation; of contributors to his Paris review Maintenant as impostures for the Delaunays; of idle dissipation in New York as a Duchampian readymade; and of the conjuring of Cravan in Picabia's elegiac film Entr'acte - The fictions of Arthur Cravan concludes with the absent poet-boxer's eventual casting off into a Surrealist legacy, and his becoming what metaphor is: a means to represent the world.

Contents:

Introduction; 1 On the genealogy of Arthur Cravan; 2 Enter Colossus; 3 To be an American in Paris; 4 'All words are lies': Maintenant, April 1912-July 1913; 5 'Life has no solution': Maintenant, November 1913-April 1915; 6 The vision of a struggling movement: Barcelona 1916; 7 'Pure affect': New York 1917; 8 Being as being, and nothing more; Conclusion; Index

Notes:

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 10 Jul 2026).

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781526133250

1526133253

9781526133243

1526133245

OCLC:

1088892458