The Meritarte Friend


The Friend Méritarte is een kort verhaal van Guillaume Apollinaire uit de bundel The murdered poet.

Apollinaire was a driven follower of the art forms that originated in his time. He found in his short stories new art forms, such as artistic plastic surgery. In L'Ami Méritarte (our friend Méritarte), it is about gastronomy as a higher art. The story Reading Warning: The following text contains details about the content and / or the end of the story.

The main character, Méritarte, plans to develop a culinary art that not only satisfies the appetite and taste, but just as the other arts appeal to the mind. " He puts his friends in sequence on an edible drama, a comic and a lyrical menu, an epic meal and a philosophical dinner for. The final agreement is a satirical feast, where guests die after eating poisonous mushrooms.

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