Collection: Léon-Paul Fargue

Léon-Paul Fargue (1876–1947) was the archetypal poet of Paris, with ties to everyone from Alfred Jarry and Erik Satie to Colette and Maurice Ravel. His work was admired by Rilke, Joyce, and Walter Benjamin. Though his work spanned and was sometimes associated with various literary movements, a bridge of sorts from symbolism to surrealism (though he was opposed to the latter), he kept to his own path throughout his life: a night wanderer who turned his perambulations through Paris into a unique poetry and prose.

“The greatest living poet in France.”—Walter Benjamin 

“One of our greatest poets.”—Rainer Maria Rilke

“Fargue taught us to sublimate the life of everyday and make the highest poetry out of it.”—Max Jacob