A burlesque and zany novel 1915 must bring peace, or there will be no 1915. Such is the motto of President Fallières who, in these troubled times, has given himself the mission of uniting the world's populations by hosting the most outlandish Universal Exposition of all time. A parallel group of outspoken artists of the avant-garde, among which the iconoclastic Marcel Duchamp, Guillaume Apollinaire and Erik Satie, conspire in a café to create an artistic, libertarian and farcical "anti-expo" they call the Imaginary Exposition. It was to be a window for their artistic works and eccentric inventions.When a bomb explodes in the Universal Exposition's commission office, there is a scramble to uncover the plot against the Expo, essentially a plot against world peace...
A burlesque and zany novel 1915 must bring peace, or there will be no 1915. Such is the motto of President Fallières who, in these troubled times, has given himself the mission of uniting the world's populations by hosting the most outlandish Universal Exposition of all time. A parallel group of outspoken artists of the avant-garde, among which the iconoclastic Marcel Duchamp, Guillaume Apollinaire and Erik Satie, conspire in a café to create an artistic, libertarian and farcical "anti-expo" they call the Imaginary Exposition. It was to be a window for their artistic works and eccentric inventions.When a bomb explodes in the Universal Exposition's commission office, there is a scramble to uncover the plot against the Expo, essentially a plot against world peace...
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