Chapter 9 I The Anarchists on the Montmartre Hill (1) The Lovely Guillaume

This is wonderful!It's so interesting!It's amazing! Money, you are a truly gifted poet. Come hug me in my sleeper, I think you're going crazy! Guillaume Apollinaire An art that can encompass all genres of painting is about to be born on the top of Montmartre, and Picasso, Max Jacob and Guillaume Apollinaire are the first warriors of this nascent art that is taking shape. Max Jacob met Guillaume Apollinaire in 1904.One day, Picasso met Guillaume Apollinaire in a bar called Austin Fox.The next day, he led Max Jacobs also to meet the poet at this bar near Saint-Lazare.Ostanfox is a resting place for coachmen and people waiting for the train.Apollinaire lives in his mother's home in Vinay, a suburb of Paris, so he has to come here every day to wait for the train.

Seeing Apollinaire for the first time, Max immediately fell for his handsomeness.He could see at a glance that this person would undoubtedly compete with him for the highest position in Picasso's mind.Guillaume Apollinaire is a naturally handsome young man: wearing a British coat, with a watch chain hanging diagonally from his waistcoat, pear-shaped head, long face, and pointed chin, just like Pierrot on the moon, Characters in ancient Italian pantomime, dressed in white, with white powder on their faces.down to earth.This description by Max is exactly the same as the portrait that Picasso made for his second poet friend in 1908.

Max Jacob's view of Apollinaire is exactly the same as that of all painters, writers, poets, art dealers, publishers, countless friends, and even some enemies who came into contact with him later. When Max saw him, Guillaume Apollinaire was sitting at a table with a small pipe in his mouth.While extending a soft, white hand to Picasso and Max Jacobs, he continued to chat with the businessmen at the next table. He is erudite and versatile, knowing everything about astronomy, geography, humanities and history.He talked about love literature to the people around him for a while, and for a while he talked about Petrone, a Latin writer and poet whose date of birth and death is unknown. , Nero Neron (37-68), the Roman emperor who reigned from 54-68. , the Roman emperor Bedinax, the American adventurer Buffalo Bill, the French poet Paul Faure; he drew one, two, three books from his pockets, as if hidden in the folds of his garments He is the author of countless and diverse works: prose, poetry, philosophy and precious works of various disciplines.Guillaume Apollinaire kept taking out books, handing them out, taking them back, reading and explaining them aloud to the people present, and he was very busy; he smiled excitedly and improvised a quatrain, Talk about any city in the world, hum some songs softly, vividly describe a scene or the taste of a dish, ask for a glass of beer to taste; then take out a "White Magazine" from a drawer-like pocket, asking everyone to seriously Consider the questions raised in it.

Suddenly he stood up and announced loudly: "Go! Let's go for a walk!" Then, he led a large number of eccentric literati and artists, wandering in Paris humming a little song.Sometimes they stopped to record something, and sometimes they suddenly proposed to find a car and go to San Jufa Park together. This person is very curious and never satisfied.He is interested in everything new, unexpected, and odd.Sometimes he stopped beside some masons who were laying walls, admired their work carefully for a long time, and then whispered very seriously: "Masonry is indeed a real profession, which is different from poetry..."

His cultural knowledge is surprisingly rich, he speaks five languages, reads widely, has a soft spot for Nick Carter, Fan Thomas and the American adventurer Buffalo Bill, never misses any issue of related magazines, often Read voraciously while walking. He said happily: "Reading is the most profitable and poetic thing, why not do it?" He presented his serialized novels to friends.Soon, his admirers overwhelmed the Montmartre Library on Avenue de Criscy.People read there all day long.Every night, people gather to comment on the adventures of the characters in the novel.Max Jacobs even considered starting a "Fan Thomas Friends Federation".A little later, the surrealist genre appeared in the literary and artistic circles.The writing speed of the people who founded this genre is almost automatic. Aren't they creating surreal prose poems consciously or unconsciously?And Sandras developed to use the name of the protagonist in his work as the title of a poem.What's more, someone later created "Moravadina" as a sequel to "Fantomas".Except for the devil and rage in the adventure, there is no similarity between the two works. One is completely out of the author's imagination, and the other is a predetermined work written entirely according to the outline drawn up in advance by the publisher.Pierre Sauvest (genius grapheme researcher, amateur of old cars) and his black friend Marcel Allan (journalist for Truck Trucks, author of 1001 Car Care Manuals) Accepted this writing task.

Apollinaire explained to his friends how to apply the writing method of "Fan Thomas" in literary creation.Both of the aforementioned authors write for Fayed Publishing: they both have to hand over a book of about 400 pages a month.The publisher's request is very simple: it must be older than Gaston Leroux Gaston Leroux (1797-1871), a French writer and journalist, mainly writes detective novels.Well written. Suwist and Alain have invented a patchwork method.They compiled a story within three days according to the outline that had been drawn up: first, the outline was drawn up, and then the two drew lots to decide which chapters to write. In case some chapters were written badly, they could be replaced by other chapters.Then, the two closed the door, and each started working behind closed doors in their own rooms.They either dictated into a tape recorder or typed directly onto waxed paper into a typewriter.As a result, from a stylistic point of view, within an hour, more than a hundred sentences that were grammatically upside down were fabricated.

While admitting that the style of the work is unrefined and "too casual", Apollinaire appreciates the unrestrained imagination of the work, and the publication of the work coincides with the advertising campaign celebrating the birth of "Fan Thomas". There are also colorful characters in Apollinaire's literary works. He not only writes poems, words, prose, narratives, love stories, and commentaries, but also loves calligraphy.In view of the trend of social thought at that time, he was afraid of causing trouble, so he put his best work (Picasso thought it was the most beautiful work he had never read) "11000 whips", wrapped it with a fake cover, and hid it in the top of the bookcase.

A few months after getting acquainted with Max Jacobs and Picasso, Apollinaire served as the head of a mysterious sports magazine.The painter Picasso also drew three sketches of the poet for the magazine: nude, muscular as a weightlifter, and a small head with eyes stunned by the muscular physique of a track and field athlete.Later, he became a publisher and undertook the publishing task of two sets of books, one called "Love Master" and the other called "Collector's Little Box".In both sets of books he published Aridan Aretin (1492-1556), Italian writer, playwright, and satirist.And Sade Sade (1740-1814), French writer.The entire work of the Marquis contributed to the liberation of these works from confinement.

He is very likable wherever he goes, so he is often in a good mood.At the party in Paris, Guillaume Apollinaire in a tuxedo walked up to the wives and wives, greeted them respectfully, and kissed their white and delicate hands.On this occasion, as elsewhere, he gave scholarly tirade, childish banal smirk, and the most indecent clownish antics to pay the finest homage to the people of society.One day, under the amazed eyes of his companions, he fell in love with a Jewish man, and both of them went to a brothel on Rose Street, and brazenly asked the female supervisor of the brothel whether her brothel carried out relevant religious rules.

He bought Time magazine and told the newspaper seller that he was suffering from chronic intestinal colic. If Time magazine could publish some research articles about this disease, it might be beneficial to cure this persistent disease. He also played some pranks from time to time.When passing by the counter of a roadside pastry shop, put your feet up on the pastry stand outside, let a stinking fart, and go. When he was quiet and honest, he also made perfume dandelion mustard pear for Vlaminck... The impression left by the first contact with him is completely different from his above-mentioned behavior.Wears a tie, wears a waistcoat, wears a watch chain, loves comfort, bank clerk, believes in superstitions, likes fortune-telling, is cautious and avoids going under ladders; lives in the luxurious house of his mother's family in Vinay, and was covered with silk as a child The carpet is like spending time on the stairs of luxury hotels in Italy, Nice, and Monaco. It is completely in the style of a typical bourgeois dude.His real name was William Apolinas de Kostowski.Her father was an officer in the army of the Kingdom of Sicily (not a Catholic prelate, as was long believed), and her mother was the daughter of a Polish officer in the Pope's personal bodyguard.

A few years after his birth, his father ran away from home.After his father passed away, stories about his mysterious romance spread;She is flexible in her affairs and pursues freedom. She often leads her children in and out of hotels, restaurants, and casinos, living an extremely dissolute life.Guillaume, who grew up in such a family background, became a Dreyfus figure of that era, began to approach extreme liberal ideas, and cooperated with a black newspaper "Street Artist" to write articles for the newspaper. In France, Guillaume Apollinaire is a stateless foreigner.At the time of his acquaintance with Max Jacob, contrary to Max, he had already published extensively in the Journal of Dramatic Art and the White Magazine. The editor-in-chief of "White Magazine"-the writer Félix Fénéon-was sentenced for sympathizing with anarchism, Mallarme (1842-1898), a representative of the French Symbolist poets.has come forward to defend him. The editorial team of "White Magazine" enjoys a high reputation, and Apollinaire is also one of the pens.Those who participated in the editorial group of the magazine successively include the following famous French writers: Zola, Gide, Proust, Verena, Jarry, Claudel, Leon Blum, Octa Eve Mirbeau, Jules Renard, Julien Benda... Apollinaire founded a magazine "Essop Greek Fabler" with several friends such as Alfred Jarry and Messilas Golberg.Banquet".The editor-in-chief is André Salmon, and nine issues have been issued. In 1904, he published "Wizards of Decay" in this magazine. Apollinaire has done everything in order to survive: a few years ago, when he was just 20 years old, he wrote a little love book "Millely, or an inexpensive pit".The book was published by hiding it under the coats of gentlemen and skirts of ladies; (Apollinaire) has written some cheap articles of advertising nature; he has written some love stories serialized in the "Morning News" for some famous novelists; A doctoral dissertation on a writer of revolutionary times. This is how poets live: when they are not in journalism, they publish short stories in newspapers; now they are idle news, like Douglas; now they are art columns, like Salmon; sometimes they are plays. , such as Leoto; also publish some short stories, such as Alain Fournier; or write pornographic books for some bookstores, such as Jean Faure, Alfred Jarry, Pierre Marc Auer Lang, who signed such works with his real name: Pierre Dimarce. When Picasso and Max Jacobs went to their new friend's office to wait for him to get off work, Apollinaire endlessly listed his various expertise and abilities, because he had served as a secretary and a French tutor, and there was a Stenographer Diploma.They both stared at him in amazement, while he felt fine and went on bragging: "I can write as fast as I can speak." "Does this work for you?" "It's useless, it's useless at all..." He didn't sit at his desk as much as Salmon or Jacob did, and he didn't need a desk, or rarely did. He hangs out more frequently with Eric Satie.Because he saw Satie record the notes of the music he created under the dim street lights on the way with Eric on the walk from Arcule to Montparnasse, and at the end of the walk, his works also It's finished.Whenever he recalled that experience, he was very excited.So the poet also imitated the composer, humming a little tune (always the same tune) and walking in Paris.He even conceived the yin-yang rhyme of a poem "A Bee Flies on a Flower" based on the rhythm of the piece.Later Max Jacob wrote: "This poem is very beautiful. He (Apollinaire) added a syllable to the word to increase the lengthened note, and deleted a syllable from the word to reduce the shortened note." Day. In the evening, Paul Leoto came to his house at the invitation of Apollinaire and his wife, and was surprised to hear that the hostess hummed this tune while transcribing her husband's poem. On the surface, Apollinaire is very rich, but in fact he is very poor.His mother, as he called him, paid for part of his daily expenses.He drank a lot and only drank rum and whiskey. Vlaminck and Derain met Kostoveska at Viina Apollinaire's mother's house, a huge villa in the middle of a park.Whip in hand, she was walking her two setter tan poodles.It immediately occurred to the two poets that perhaps she had tamed her lover with the same whip for a long time—a certain Monsieur Weil (Max Jacobs thought he was Guillaume's father, but he was mistaken) Understand.Neighbors have confirmed that this is indeed true.Mr. Weil was a bank clerk who had been running around looking for jobs for Kostowski's two sons. Kostowska's youngest son is a very stable, quiet, honest young man.His thoughts are closer to Marc Sangnier (1873-1950), a French politician and journalist.In 1902, he founded the Catholic magazine "Xilong" and devoted his life to the social Catholic movement.The social-democratic Catholic thought promoted by Xilong.Because he is more sensible, his mother appreciates him very much and is willing to ask for his advice in everything.She also loves another son, the poet Guillaume, but often appears as a protector, and she has no understanding of what this son is doing.She thought him a complete piece of shit who could neither earn money nor do any manual work, hardly anything.He never saved money, but he was always worried about having no money.She longed for him not to be a poet, but to find a fixed, stable and respected position as a bank clerk.poet?What is a poet? Every time Guillaume put all the money in his mother's cash drawer into his own pocket, he never thought about paying it back, because he loved his mother.He always protects his mother and prevents her from any harm.Max Jacob wrote a song in honor of his mother.And whenever his companions laughed at him, they sang this song together, for which Guillaume cursed Max severely. Its lyrics are as follows: Hurry up and marry Apollinaire's mother, Apollinaire's mother, What would that look like? What would that be like? On the surface, he looks like an obedient child.The mother read hardly any of her son's writings (and he never mailed them to her).When she occasionally glanced at The Chief of the Heresy, she closed her eyes immediately, and the incomprehensible obscene stories in the book were almost impossible to read.One day she met Paul Leoto, who said: "My other son is writing a book too! The one in Mexico now!" "What kind of books did he write about?" "He's writing very complicated stuff...he's writing for a financial newspaper." In his mother's eyes, Guillaume was a little intolerable.When he was 21 as a governess in Renani, Germany, his mother always treated him like a child in shorts.The letters often asked him what he was doing every day; how his money was spent; whether he was homesick; ordered him to read the local newspaper every day in order to learn German well; His cunning pickpocket steals... and she reprimanded him for not writing home at Christmas, and told him to put a little more spit on the envelopes for safety; a pair of shoes, but not more than Eight marks; if you don't drink milk, be sure to drink wine or beer with your meals; don't do stupid things... She asked him if he changed the quilt and bed linen regularly, if they were washed clean, if the broken clothes were repaired, and who Repaired for him... She ordered her son to write back to her in an unbelievable tone, but she didn't want to receive letters like those written by a fool in the past.Finally, his mother begged him to correct the clerical error: When you write a letter, you have to use a snack, okay?Shame on an educated child who makes frequent spelling mistakes.I understand that these are mistakes made by your carelessness, but if you write to other people to make such mistakes, they will take the problem very seriously, and it will really embarrass us all. [Excerpt from "Correspondence between Guillaume Apollinaire, his mother and his brother" published in 1987] Apollinaire lived in his mother's house until he was 27 years old.After leaving home, when he was 28 and 29 years old, he visited his mother every Sunday, and every time he made sure to bring her a bag of laundry and some homemade jam.In exchange, he left after eating and drinking. Mother doesn't like his friends: neither Montmartre's friends, nor Vlaminck and Derain.When Apollinaire first brought these two friends to his mother’s home in Vinay, it was because they were penniless and hungry.He thought they would undoubtedly have a good meal at Mama's house.He had assumed that his mother would invite the three of them to dine with the other guests.Instead, they were ushered into an anteroom between the billiard room and the music hall.In a big metal cage above the bookcase was a blind monkey, also frantic with hunger, eating gilded iron bars beyond recognition. The three hungry friends sat on hard chairs without saying a word.Hearing the clinking of knives and forks from the next room, he was so greedy that he salivated.Dinner began, one dish after another, cold cuts, hot dishes, cheese and desserts, no one thought of asking them to eat together.Even the monkey listened in silence.After the guests and the hostess had evacuated, the three of them were ushered into the dining room.Because the mother does not want to see the three poets, nor does she want her guests to see them. Undoubtedly, they can only eat the leftovers of other people. Guillaume Apollinaire inherited his mother's gluttony.Chagall once wrote: "When the wine is in the stomach, it does not delay him to swallow the meat in large chunks." Guillaume is greedy, and he always gobbles when he eats, eating one dish after another until Drink and eat until you are full. Before the banquet, he was always in high spirits, beaming with joy, with his chest and belly puffed out, his collar undone, and his belt loosened, waiting for the signal to charge.As soon as the signal is issued, immediately rush to the wine and vegetables.He likes to eat anything but bloody meat, so he chooses the most variety.Offal and pastries are his favourites.When he invited friends over for dinner, he cooked a creamy, cheese-and-spice risotto. Apollinaire eating in a restaurant can really be regarded as a scene: a napkin cloth is wrapped around his neck, the false collar of his clothes is open, he is holding a chicken with both hands, gnawing his mouth, and his mouth is covered with meat crumbs.Throughout the meal he was always smiling, always grinning from ear to ear.After swallowing two servings of beef and three servings of steak, he stood up suddenly and said: "Wait for me, now I must go to the latrine to relieve myself." He was very familiar with the best toilets in Paris and often directed his friends to this or That toilet. Once back at the table, the poet ceased eating, but a cup of coffee and a portion of broth would be obligatory in place of the digestif. They often go to the poet Chatier's home in Montmartre for dinner. Once Delang and Flemish are present, they always play the game of who eats the most.The rules are simple: eat all the dishes in the menu, one round ends, and the second round starts, whoever stops after eating first is the loser.The loser is fined.In such a game, the loser is never Apollinaire's turn. Every time Apollinaire went to the restaurant, he fumbled in his pocket, his face turned pale, and then exclaimed: "Oops, I forgot to bring my wallet!" When he cheated on food and drink, he naturally became the loser in the game, until Vlaminck said: "Don't worry, it's my turn to treat today." He was saved. So, he lifted his spirits again, and immediately took away three dishes at once. Guillaume often took all the money in his mother's wallet.My mother has experienced all kinds of ups and downs in her life, good times and bad times, but she can always learn to adapt to the environment.Guillaume, too, has had many trials and tribulations, but he has never saved money (in a woolen stocking) like Happagon, the hero of Molière's play "The Miser."He had a good reason: he was often poor and never rich, so he had no woolen socks.He often acts like a child with only six sous on him. Su Bo Soupault (1897-1990), French writer.It was once said: During the war, Apollinaire worked in the audit office of the Securities Building, and he often accompanied Apollinaire to work.Every day they passed Bank Street, where there was a junk dealer.Apollinaire stopped in front of some shop stalls and looked at everything: old keys, penholders with ink, busts of characters, pottery, weights and rulers He was always amazed at those items.Ask the businessman: "How much does this jar sell for?" "Ten sous." "Ten sous?" Still looking at it with great interest, he put it down suddenly, pouted and said, "Ten sous is too expensive." He picked up an old pipe, stroked the meerschaum and briar on it, admired the bends of the pipe, and asked: "And this pipe?" "Two sous." "Two sous? It's not worth the price!" Sadly, he continued on his way.The next day he went back to the stall again, buying nothing, even though the jars were reduced to five sous and the pipe to one sou. If you want to make him angry, there is a very effective way: open his closet in front of his face, and pretend to steal something.So he ordered, begged, begged that the treasure that belonged to him be returned to him.He sneered at you in a friendly way and insisted on taking things back.This weakness of his is well known, and he is not blamed.Just have to know, absolutely don't ask him for anything, and don't ask him for anything. Apollinaire is very stingy in spending money, but he is generous and spares no effort for love.When he met Picasso and Max Jacobs, he had just returned to France from London.Three years ago, he had met a girl named Arnie Brydon at Miro's house.At that time, he served as the French tutor of the family's youngest daughter, Gabriel, while Ani, a beautiful English girl, was responsible for teaching her English.He fell in love with her at first sight and fell madly in love with this girl.After the girl returned to England, he chased her to London, aiming to try her luck at all costs.The girl's family is rich and has created all the conditions for her to enjoy the noble life.Later she went to Renani in Germany, and he chased Renani.The move made him forget about another love interest, Linda, and made it possible for him to travel around Germany and write about the region, Renani.The relevant passages in "The Murdered Poet" and "The Chief of the Heresy" are very admirable. In the back of his mind, little Gabriel's English tutor was far more important than his job teaching French.He wrote to Ani the same courtship poem he had sent to Linda, and later he wrote the same poem to other girls.But each of them always thought she was the only girl who received the poem.He wrote to her in French and she wrote back to him in English.Neither of them could read the other's letters very well, but to Annie it was obvious: he was after her, he loved her, and he might be able to have her. "Physically speaking, I loved him at that time, but the distance between our two minds is too far away." She later said to others with all her heart. However, in a letter to Apollinaire, she called him "Dear...". The two of them maintained a secret love relationship for nearly a year.Later, it was Ani who took the initiative to break this relationship: "Costello" (as Ani called him) was a brutal and violent person, while Ani girl was pure and introverted.One day he took her to the edge of a cliff and forced her to make an immediate decision of acceptance or rejection, saying: "Either you marry me, or I throw you out of here." She thought the deal was unfair and eventually convinced him.The next day, she escaped.Guillaume was completely abandoned. This is not the first time, nor will it be the last.The ladies dumping him means they don't like him.He suffers a great deal from this, and if he had been a little wiser he should have learned these lessons.He wrote letters of poetry to all the women he courted, first to win them over, then to continue, and finally to start over.His lust is like a storm, passionate and unrestrained.His pursuit has both emotional and sexual factors. Once he falls in love with someone, he is like a wild horse that has run wild, and no one can stop him.Is Annie unwilling to accept him?He doesn't believe it.However, she resolutely rejects his entreaties. He returns to Paris.For a while, he flirted with a neighbor woman.When he learned that Ani had returned to England, he hurried to England and suggested to his beloved again to hijack her to leave England, marry him, have children, get rich, buy her fur coats and scarves, and scare the young girl at that moment. Thinking about family.One day, he sets a scam: he invites Ani to dinner at the home of an Albanian writer friend.Ani's parents gave permission to go out, but she had to be home at nine o'clock in the evening.That dinner was merely a memorial event.The clock struck nine o'clock, and Ani noticed that there was activity in the next room.She went up to see that a female companion of the Albanian writer was making the bed. "Who is this room for?" she asked. "Give it to us both!" replied "Costro" flatteredly. Angry Annie left without saying goodbye.At 9:10, Annie returned to her home.However, he was locked up by his angry parents and was not allowed to leave the house for half a step. Guillaume returned to Paris again dejected.Did he just give up?The following year, he went to London again.This time, he suggested the title of countess to his sweetheart. "Ani, let's flee to France, Ani, what else do you want?" "Nothing!" Annie shouted loudly. Due to the stubborn insistence of the poet, Ani is tired.She took a new step: in order to avoid Apollinaire's entanglement, she crossed the English Channel and the Atlantic Ocean to the other side of the ocean.Since then, the two of them have been separated forever.Apollinaire never tried to pursue her to America... Just as Louise received Apollinaire's poem "Calligrammes (Pattern Poem)" after fifteen years of breaking off the relationship, Ani also received Apollinaire's poem "Broken Love Song" later: Farewell to the embarrassing fake love with the woman who abandoned me compared to last year in germany the woman i lost I will never see her again. When returning to Paris from London in 1904, Apollinaire left his job in the bank and served as the editor-in-chief of the "Shareholder's Guide".He doesn't know anything about the stock market, and he has to pretend he doesn't.When he became the troubadour of the artists with whom he was intimately connected, and at the same time served the painting with the pen in his hand, many gossipers (though not necessarily out of malice) repeated the same old tune, thinking that he had great influence on painting. Don't know anything. He wrote very little about art, and he still gave lectures here and there.His circle of friends included not only Picasso and Max Jacobs, but also the writer Alfred Jarry whom he admired very much, and the two Fauvist painters Frau whom he met on the train from Vinay to Paris. Munk and Delang.His small court was formed in this way, but they had no fixed place of activity. In 1904, after Picasso returned to France for the fourth time from Spain, his friend ceramic sculptor Pac Durio vacated his workshop on La Vignan Street on Montmartre Hill for them.This is a strange house, built in 1860, it was originally a piano production workshop.After they divided it into several rooms with wooden boards, it became the official residence of the artists.Since the house is built on the mountainside, the entrance is on the uppermost floor.In order to enter their respective rooms, people had to go down after entering the gate, and first entered the dim corridor that was hot in summer and freezing in winter.Each room is lit by large windows that open towards the top of Montmartre.There are several bathrooms in this house, and the only faucet is on the second floor.The lower ceiling is the upper floor.The sound insulation of the house is very bad, and any noise in adjacent rooms can be heard by each other: singing, shouting, footsteps, creaking beds, and moans from time to time... The wooden floor does not hinder the neighbors from interacting with each other at all. Know everything that's going on in other people's homes, even their movements.All the doors barely close. But Picasso was thrilled that they finally had a place to stay.With a greedy expression, he admired this unique and strange all-wood building.He named the house "Hunter House".This humble house resembles the flat-bottomed boats where the washerwomen scrub their clothes on the Seine River, so Max Jacobs had a new idea: to name the house "Laundry Boat".From then on, the name "laundry boat" will gradually start from Lavignon Street and spread all over the world. (Figure 6)