{"product_id":"lost-profiles","title":"Lost Profiles","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eA retrospective of crucial periods in modernism via portraits of its literary lions by the co-founder of the Surrealist Movement.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePoet Alan Bernheimer provides a long overdue English translation of this French literary classic. Opening with a reminiscence of the international Dada movement in the late 1910s and its transformation into the beginnings of surrealism, \u003ci\u003eLost Profiles\u003c\/i\u003e then proceeds to usher its readers into encounters with a variety of literary lions. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWe meet an elegant Marcel Proust, renting five adjoining rooms at an expensive hotel to \"contain\" the silence needed to produce \u003ci\u003eRemembrance of Things Past\u003c\/i\u003e; an exhausted James Joyce putting himself through grueling translation sessions for \u003ci\u003eFinnegans Wake\u003c\/i\u003e; and an enigmatic Apollinaire in search of the ultimate \u003ci\u003eobjet trouvé\u003c\/i\u003e. Soupault sketches lively portraits of surrealist precursors like Pierre Reverdy and Blaise Cendrars, a moving account of his tragic fellow surrealist René Crevel, and the story of his unlikely friendship with right-wing anti-Vichy critic George Bernanos. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe collection ends with essays on two modernist forerunners, Charles Baudelaire and Henri Rousseau. With an afterword by Ron Padgett recounting his meeting with Soupault in the mid 70's and a preface by André Breton biographer Mark Polizzotti, \u003ci\u003eLost Profiles\u003c\/i\u003e confirms Soupault's place in the vanguard of twentieth-century literature.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"City Lights Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54245469028696,"sku":"9780872867277","price":17.5,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0278\/1295\/4195\/files\/9780872867277_22199654-23bd-462c-ab17-dd6bd507b733.jpg?v=1779341443","url":"https:\/\/agendabookshop.com\/products\/lost-profiles","provider":"Agenda Bookshop","version":"1.0","type":"link"}