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Le bon apôtre

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«J'affirme que toute l'histoire du roman, à notre époque, est obligée de tenir compte de ce roman-là», écrit Aragon dans Les Lettres françaises.

Avec ce premier roman, Philippe Soupault atteint d'emblée un achèvement. L'auteur n'a que vingt-cinq ans, et ce petit livre est un chef-d'œuvre.
Entre les deux héros - Jean, l'Autre, et Philippe qui se campe lui-même, tour à tour acteur et témoin - se mesure et se joue la question de leurs jeunes existences : Où, comment vivre ? La grande ombre de Rimbaud leur fait signe, Jacques Vaché ne répond plus. Drôle, cruel, émouvant, admirablement écrit, Le bon apôtre décrit sa course.

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Published January 1, 1988

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Philippe Soupault

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Philippe Soupault was a French writer and poet, novelist, critic, and political activist. He took an active role in the Dadaist movement and later founded the Surrealist movement with André Breton. Soupault founded the periodical Littérature together with the writers Breton and Louis Aragon in Paris 1919, which, for many, dates the beginnings of Surrealism. The first book of automatic writing, Les champs magnétiques (1920), was co-authored by Soupault and Breton. After imprisonment by the Nazis in World War II, Soupault traveled to the United States but subsequently returned to France. His works include such fat volumes of poetry as Aquarium (1917) and Rose des vents [compass card] (1920) and the novel Les Dernières Nuits de Paris (1928; tr. Last Nights of Paris, 1929).

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