Guillaume Apollinaire is a great French poet, author of “Bestiary”, “Caligram”, “Alcohols”. His famous “Pont Mirabeau” is a masterpiece of world lyricism. But the great poet was also a brilliant prose writer. The parable “The Rotting Sorcerer” is the first book of Apollinaire the prose writer. It is written in the genre of medieval mysteries and dialogues. “The Murdered Poet” is an adventure story, a parody of the life and morals of Apollinaire’s contemporary society.