The fictions of Arthur Cravan: Poetry, boxing and revolution

The 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. -- 1. On The Genealogy Of Arthur Cravan -- 2. Enter Colossus -- 3. To Be An American In Paris -- 4. 'all Words Are Lies': Maintenant, April 1912-july 1913 -- 5. 'life Has No Solution': Maintenant, November 1913-april 1915 -- 6. The Vision Of Struggling Movement: Barcelona 1916 -- 7. 'pure Affect': New York 1917 -- 8. Being As Being, And Nothing More. Dafydd W. Jones. Includes Bibliographical References And Index.