{"product_id":"the-fictions-of-arthur-cravan-poetry-boxing-and-revolution-9781526133236","title":"The Fictions of Arthur Cravan: Poetry, Boxing and Revolution","description":"\u003cp\u003e • Author(s): Dafydd Jones\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e • Publisher Imprint: Manchester University Press\u003cbr\u003e • BISAC: Historical\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe legendary poet and boxer Arthur Cravan, a fleeting figure on the periphery of early twentieth-century European avant-gardism, is frequently invoked as proto-Dada and Surrealist exemplar. Yet he remains an insubstantial phenomenon, not seen since 1918, lost through historical interstices, clouded in drifting untruths. This study processes philosophical positions into a practical recovery - from nineteenth-century Nietzsche to twentieth-century Deleuze - with thoughts on subjectivity, metaphor, representation and multiplicity. From fresh readings and new approaches - of Cravan's first published work as a manifesto of simulation; of contributors to his Paris review Maintenant as impostures for the Delaunays; and of the conjuring of Cravan in Picabia's elegiac film Entr'acte - The fictions of Arthur Cravan concludes with the absent poet-boxer's eventual casting off into a Surrealist legacy, and his becoming what metaphor is: a means to represent the world.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Manchester University Press","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":47889400037527,"sku":"9781526133236","price":9487.0,"currency_code":"INR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0666\/3471\/1191\/files\/9781526133236.webp?v=1781176292","url":"https:\/\/atlanticbooks.com\/products\/the-fictions-of-arthur-cravan-poetry-boxing-and-revolution-9781526133236","provider":"Atlantic Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}