The Banquet Years Author:Roger Shattuck The Banquet Years: The origins of the avant-garde in France, 1885 to World War I. — Portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment, who laid the ground-work for Dadaism and Surrealism. — Introduces the lives and work of Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, Alfred Jarry, and Guilla... more »ume Apollinaire, among others. UK-published, similar to ISBN 0394704150« less