The Central Laboratory av Max Jacob

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<p><strong>The first English translation of the Cubist poet¿s most important collection of verse poems¿a wild grab bag of contradictory styles</strong></p><p>When Max Jacob published <i>The Central Laboratory</i> in 1921, Parisian Dada had just officially come to an end and Surrealism was yet to be born. The poetic scene in Paris was between definitions, and Jacob embodied that moment.<br><i>The Central Laboratory</i> is distinctly modern, yet utterly discordant with anything else that had been published before: a grab bag of popular genres, operettas, Breton folk song, nonsense poetry, nursery rhyme, doggerel, parody and puns in which sound often trumps sense and Jacob changes register on a dime. Employing Symbolist obscure reference, Cubist fracturing of perspective and Dadaist discontinuity, Jacob¿s art of mixed signals and mocked allegory formulates a camp sensibility, a ¿queering¿ of literary style as riddled with contradiction as Jacob himself had been in his lifetime.<br>A centu