"Tu marches vers Auteuil tu veux aller chez toi à pied / Dormir parmi tes fétiches d'Océanie et de Guinée [...]" this study follows the clues in the final verses of Apollinaire's poem Zone , which has become near iconic for the avant-garde, rediscovering Apollinaire's aesthetics and the poets with whom he was acquainted Cendrars, Reverdy, Soffici, and Marinetti against the backdrop of the primitivism discourse in the early 20 th century.

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Katarina Rempe, University of Osnabrück, Germany.