The subversive spirit and the spatial imagination in the novel "Les Onze mille verges ou les amours d’un hospodar" by Guillaume Apollinaire

The main objective of the article is to answer the following questions: why did Apollinaire choose for the main character of his most famous pornographic novel a Romanian prince, what is the imaginary potential of the space evoked in this work and by what means and methods of writing this controversial text becomes a common platform for poetic creativity and the Apollinarian modernist subversion. Following the spatial and topographic turn in literary studies, the article focuses on the importance of imaginary space and of spatial imagination in Apollinaire’s text, pointing out the presence of 19th century Romania as one of the most significant vectors for the fictional world created in the novel.