{"product_id":"rhapsodies-1831-9781800172203","title":"Rhapsodies 1831","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003eBorel was a lycanthrope, necrophile, absurd revolutionary, Paris dandy with a scented beard, and flamboyant sufferer who died in Algeria due to his refusal to wear a hat. His only biographer, Dame Enid Starkie, claims he is now forgotten. Rhapsodies 1831, a book of poems he wrote when he was twenty and twenty-one, is back and has caused a scandal due to its heart and soul and lack of thought. \u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFormat\u003c\/strong\u003e: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eLength\u003c\/strong\u003e: 96 pages\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublication date\u003c\/strong\u003e: 24 February 2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher\u003c\/strong\u003e: Carcanet Press Ltd\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003eThéophile Gautier once remarked that Borel was the sun, an irresistible force that no one could resist. Indeed, who could? A lycanthrope, necrophile, absurd revolutionary, Paris dandy with a scented beard, flamboyant sufferer: a man with no grave and no memorial. His once celebrated red mouth opened briefly, like an exotic flower, to complain of injustice and bourgeois vulgarity; of his frustration in love and reputation; of poverty and blighted fate. Then he withered in the minor officialdom of Algeria, where he died because he would not wear a hat, leaving a haunted house and a dubious name.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAnd now, as his only biographer, Dame Enid Starkie, asserts, he is quite forgotten. Rhapsodies 1831 includes all the poems Borel wrote when he was twenty and twenty-one. The poems, he said, are the slag from my crucible: the poetry that boils in my heart has slung its dross. It is a fabulous, fiery, black-clouded dross: captains and cutlasses, castles, maidens, daggers, danger; calls to arms, imagined loves, plaints, and howls of injustice.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eNever did a publication create a greater scandal, Borel said, because it was a book written heart and soul, with no thought of anything else, and stuffed with gall and suffering. It was not reviewed. Now it is back.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWeight\u003c\/strong\u003e: 136g\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDimension\u003c\/strong\u003e: 136 x 215 x 16 (mm)\u003cbr\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eISBN-13\u003c\/strong\u003e: 9781800172203\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Petrus Borel","offers":[{"title":"Paperback \/ softback","offer_id":44095160090874,"sku":"9781800172203","price":9.5,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0522\/4297\/2845\/products\/1646208984970_book.jpg?v=1646926678","url":"https:\/\/shulphink.com\/products\/rhapsodies-1831-9781800172203","provider":"Shulph Ink","version":"1.0","type":"link"}