![]() In reality ‘Arthur Cravan’ is a fiction, a pseudonym of Fabian Avénarius Lloyd, but it is the name by which the man is primarily known. ![]() Giving due acknowledgement to Maria Lluïsa Borràs’s Arthur Cravan: une stratégie du scandale (1996), this book provides anglophone audiences with the first comprehensive biographical study of this ‘twentieth century man of mystery’. Jones manages to get to grips with this simultaneously effusive and elusive figure and place his impressive list of epithets in their proper context. In The Fictions of Arthur Cravan, Dafydd W. He is, at first glance, a biographer’s dream but, when one considers all the misinformation, mystique, and mythology surrounding (and generated by) this remarkable man, he quickly becomes an impossible subject. ![]() Provocateur, poet and poser, we know for certain that Cravan mingled with the pre-war Parisian avantgarde, was knocked out in an exhibition match by Jack Johnson, and was the nephew of Oscar Wilde. Dafydd Jones, The Fictions of Arthur Cravan : Poetry, Boxing and Revolution (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2019)Īrthur Cravan (1887-1918) was a sailor in the Pacific, muleteer, orange-picker in California, snake charmer, hotel thief, logger in the great forests, former French boxing champion, grandson to the Queen’s Chancellor, Berlin automobile chauffeur, gentleman thief, and much else besides – or so he claimed. ![]()
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