‘One day in 1907 I was rounding the corner from Boulevard des Italiens to rue Gramont when a fluttering white piece of paper caught my eye. I grabbed it on the fly, by instinct, as if it were a theatre bill. At that moment, raising my eyes to the fourth floor of the nearest building, I saw a masked figure duck back and cry: “Hold on to that paper, Sir! I’ll be right down for it.”’
Le flâneur des deux rives was published in the year of Apollinaire’s death. More than a century later, the poet’s ode to Paris is rendered in English for the first time.
Peter Behrman de Sinéty teaches English at the École Normale Supérieure-Paris. His translations include Éric Chevillard’s QWERTY Invectives and Maël Renouard’s Fragments of an Infinite Memory and The Peking Opera Reform.
£12.99
| Author: Guillaume Apollinaire |
| Translator: Peter Behrman de Sinéty |
| Publisher: Hermits United |
| Release Date: 18 November 2025 |
| Genre: Prose |
| Language: English |
| Pages: 96 |
| Dimensions: 185 x 125 mm |
| Format: Paperback |
| ISBN: 978-1-916658-14-1 |
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