The Pope Assassinated

"From end to end there is not as much wit in it as you will hear in a genealogical exchange between two taxicab drivers. It is flat, flabby and idiotic. It is as profound as an editorial in the New York Tribune and as revolutionary as Ayer's Almanac. It is the best joke pulled off on the Young Forward-Lookers since Eliot floored them with the notes to The Waste Land. M.Josephson rather spoils its effect, I believe, by rubbing it in" - H.L.Mencken, American Mercury Apollinaire's bold, outrageous novel of the Paris of his day and age, written in a field hospital while recovering from shrapnel wounds. Thinly-veiled, mocking satire alternates with surrealist glimpses of a dream-like existence the reader is invited to dwell in. Cover painting "The Muse Inspiring the Poet" by Henri Rousseau (1909). Zem Books. Avant Garde. 2020.