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Guillaume Apollinaire

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Poet

The Resume

    (August 26, 1880-November 9, 1918)
    Born in Rome, Italy
    Birth name was Wilhelm Albert Wlodzimierz Apolinary Kostrowicki
    Poetry collections include 'Alcools' (1913) and 'Calligrams' (1918)
    Wrote the play 'The Breasts of Tiresias' (1917)
    Considered a founder of the surrealist movement in literature

Why he might be annoying:

    He anonymously wrote an erotic novel, 'The Eleven Thousand Rods,' that was banned in France until 1970.
    He championed the Marquis de Sade as 'the freest spirit that ever existed.'
    He called for the Louvre to be burned down.
    He was arrested on suspicion of having stolen the Mona Lisa (1911).
    Before being released, he implicated Pablo Picasso in the theft.

Why he might not be annoying:

    He was born out of wedlock to a mother who neglected him because she was a roulette fanatic.
    He organized the first exhibition of cubist art at the Salon of Independents (1911).
    He coined the word 'surrealism' for the Jean Cocteau-Eric Satie ballet 'Parade' (1917).
    He suffered a serious shrapnel wound during World War I.
    Two years later, he died in the Spanish influenza epidemic.

Credit: C. Fishel


Featured in the following Annoying Collections:

Year In Review:

    In 2023, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2022, Out of 3 Votes: 0% Annoying
    In 2021, Out of 60 Votes: 65.00% Annoying
    In 2020, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2019, Out of 16 Votes: 56.25% Annoying
    In 2018, Out of 2 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2017, Out of 3 Votes: 100% Annoying
    In 2016, Out of 7 Votes: 42.86% Annoying
    In 2015, Out of 6 Votes: 66.67% Annoying
    In 2014, Out of 14 Votes: 57.14% Annoying
    In 2013, Out of 4 Votes: 50.0% Annoying
    In 2012, Out of 13 Votes: 69.23% Annoying
    In 2011, Out of 9 Votes: 77.78% Annoying
    In 2010, Out of 28 Votes: 46.43% Annoying