Chapter 61 Translator's Notes on "Flea" [1]

Translator's Notes on "Flea" [1] Guillaume Apollinaire was an illegitimate child born in Rome in October 1880, and soon his mother took him to live in France.When he was young, he studied at Monaco School and was a visionary; when he was at St. Charles Middle School, he had already created, and when he was twenty, he edited news.Since then, he has been a wandering restaurant, advocating literature and art, making friends with many poets, and published the first research in the world on the great Cubist painter Pablo Picasso. In November 1911, famous paintings were stolen from the Louvre Museum (4). He was arrested and imprisoned on suspicion, but he was finally released.When the European War started, he went to join the army. In the trench, fragments of shells came and nailed his head, so he was admitted to the hospital.After getting married, the family is happy.But in November 1918, he died of pneumonia in Paris, three days before the establishment of the "Treaty of Armistice".

He is good at painting and poetry.Translated here is one of "Le Bestiaire" ("Birds and Insects") a "Corteged'Orphee" ("Alphie's Guardian") [6]; and contains a woodcut by Raoul Dufy [7]. ※ ※ ※ [1] This article, together with the translation of the short satirical poem "Flea", was originally published in the November 1928 issue of Volume 1, Issue 6, signed by Yu. Guillaume Apollinaire Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918), a French decadent poet, is the main representative of "Cubic Futurism" poetry.His works include "The Guardian of Orpheus", "Alcohol Collection" and so on.

[2] Cubism, also known as "Cubism" and "Cubism", is a bourgeois art genre formed in France at the beginning of the 20th century.It opposes objectively depicting things and advocates using geometric figures as the basis of plastic arts. 〔3〕Pablo Picasso Pablo Picasso (1881-1973), a Spanish painter, settled in Paris in 1903, the founder of Cubism, and later turned to Impressionism. 〔4〕The Louvre Museum, also known as the Louvre Museum of Fine Arts, is located in Paris and is the largest museum in France, housing many ancient and modern art treasures. 〔5〕The "Treaty of Armistice" is the "Kam-Bian Armistice Agreement".The surrender agreement signed by Germany and the Allies in the woodland of Compiegne (north-east of Paris) on November 11, 1918.

〔6〕 "Alphie's Guardian" is a collection of poems written by Apollinaire in 1914. Alpheus, also translated Orpheus, a poet and harpist in Greek mythology. 〔7〕Raoul Dufy Raoul Dufy (1877-1953), a French painter.In the early days, he was an Impressionist, and later turned into a "Fauvism". He mostly painted landscapes and still lifes such as streets and ports, pursuing decorative effects.