Blaise Cendrars

Author : Eric Robertson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2022-08-02
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789145205

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Blaise Cendrars by Eric Robertson Pdf

A new account of the life and work of innovative, pseudonymous French poet, novelist, essayist, and film writer Blaise Cendrars. In 1912 the young Frédéric-Louis Sauser arrived in France, carrying an experimental poem and a new identity. Blaise Cendrars was born. Over the next half-century, Cendrars wrote innovative poems, novels, essays, film scripts, and autobiographical prose. His groundbreaking books and collaborations with artists such as Sonia Delaunay and Fernand Léger remain astonishingly modern today. Cendrars’s writings reflect his insatiable curiosity, his vast knowledge, which was largely self-taught, and his love of everyday life. In this new account, Eric Robertson examines Cendrars’s work against a turbulent historical background and reassesses his contribution to twentieth-century literature. Robertson shows how Cendrars is as relevant today as ever and deserves a wider readership in the English-speaking world.

Author : Blaise Cendrars
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 296 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1978
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UVA:X000086740

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Selected Writings of Blaise Cendrars by Blaise Cendrars Pdf

Author : Blaise Cendrars
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 426 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 1992
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9780520065802

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Complete Poems by Blaise Cendrars Pdf

"At last! A superb translation of one of the great and greatly neglected Modernist poets! The map of Modernist poetry will never be quite the same."—Marjorie Perloff "Padgett's sparkling translations do marvelous justice to the eccentric and exciting poetry of Blaise Cendrars."—John Ashbery

Author : Blaise Cendrars
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 268 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Actresses
ISBN : STANFORD:36105110269961

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To the End of the World by Blaise Cendrars Pdf

A Parisian actress in her late 70s, with an active stage and sex life, is held for questioning after the murder of a barkeeper. What follows is a superbly imaginative, often hilarious vivification of Paris in the late 1940s. "Without Cendrars, neither Miller nor Burroughs would have existed.

Author : Blaise Cendrars
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 274 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0520078071

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Hollywood by Blaise Cendrars Pdf

Blaise Cendrars, one of twentieth-century France's most gifted men of letters, came to Hollywood in 1936 for the newspaper Paris-Soir. Already a well-known poet, Cendrars was a celebrity journalist whose perceptive dispatches from the American dream factory captivated millions. These articles were later published as Hollywood: Mecca of the Movies, which has since appeared in many languages. Remarkably, this is its first translation into English. Hollywood in 1936 was crowded with stars, moguls, directors, scouts, and script girls. Though no stranger to filmmaking (he had worked with director Abel Gance), Cendrars was spurned by the industry greats with whom he sought to hobnob. His response was to invent a wildly funny Hollywood of his own, embellishing his adventures and mixing them with black humor, star anecdotes, and wry social commentary. Part diary, part tall tale, this book records Cendrars's experiences on Hollywood's streets and at its studios and hottest clubs. His impressions of the town's drifters, star-crazed sailors, and undiscovered talent are recounted in a personal, conversational style that anticipates the "new journalism" of writers such as Tom Wolfe. Perfectly complemented by his friend Jean Guérin's witty drawings, and following the tradition of European travel writing, Cendrars's "little book about Hollywood" offers an astute, entertaining look at 1930s America as reflected in its unique movie mecca.

Author : Blaise Cendrars
Publisher : Peter Owen Publishers
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 41,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : IND:30000095170142

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The Astonished Man by Blaise Cendrars Pdf

The extraordinary and much-requested first volume of Cendrars' autobiography, this account chronicles the author's exploits in the Foreign Legion--including the loss of his arm--before the narrative sets off across continents. From Africa to South America, Cendrars encounters everyone from Gallic gipsies to Piquita, the Mexican millionairess. And to all his encounters he brings the vitality, savage humor, and vivid observation that characterize his dazzling writing.

Author : Blaise Cendrars
Publisher : Peter Owen Modern Classic
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 48,5 Mb
Release : 2002
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0720611571

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Dan Yack by Blaise Cendrars Pdf

Centering on eccentric English millionaire shipowner, notorious hell-raiser, and the envy of all St Petersburg, Dan Yack, this strange travel yarn begins with the protagonist finding out that he is no longer wanted by his lover, Hedwiga. Rejection letter in hand, he eventually wanders into a nightclub to impulsively invite a handful of artists to accompany him on a world voyage via the Antarctic. As their journey progresses, the weather worsens and they enter pack-ice. Impatient, Dan orders the crew to land him and his three companions while they wait for a clear passage. They have enough provisions for a long, dark polar winter, but things do not run smoothly. The musician destroys their watches, the poet drifts off into serious daydreams, and the sculptor starts making statues of Dan Yack in ice. And Dan himself is worried--about time, about breaking his monocle, and about having no-one to love. But when the sun finally returns after the polar winter, no one could predict the surreal disaster that is about to unfold--a scenario involving a plum pudding, whales, women, and World War I.

Author : Blaise Cendrars
Publisher : Greenwood
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 1969
Category : Fiction
ISBN : IND:39000005910372

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The African Saga by Blaise Cendrars Pdf

Author : Blaise Cendrars
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 25 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Artists' books
ISBN : 0300164149

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La prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France by Blaise Cendrars Pdf

Blaise Cendrars' narrative about his life-changing journey on the Trans-Siberian Railway is a poem of memory and movement. Sonia Delaunay's designs create a parallel path as the reader slips down the palette while swimming through a river of words.

Author : Blaise Cendrars
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 28 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2007-01
Category : Novelists, French
ISBN : 0720612667

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Planus by Blaise Cendrars Pdf

Author : Blaise Cendrars
Publisher : Columbia : University of Missouri Press
Page : 112 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 1985
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : UOM:39015011828962

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A Night in the Forest by Blaise Cendrars Pdf

Author : Eric Robertson
Publisher : Reaktion Books
Page : 329 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2022-08-04
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781789145199

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Blaise Cendrars by Eric Robertson Pdf

A new account of the life and work of innovative, pseudonymous French poet, novelist, essayist, and film writer Blaise Cendrars. In 1912 the young Frédéric-Louis Sauser arrived in France, carrying an experimental poem and a new identity. Blaise Cendrars was born. Over the next half-century, Cendrars wrote innovative poems, novels, essays, film scripts, and autobiographical prose. His groundbreaking books and collaborations with artists such as Sonia Delaunay and Fernand Léger remain astonishingly modern today. Cendrars’s writings reflect his insatiable curiosity, his vast knowledge, which was largely self-taught, and his love of everyday life. In this new account, Eric Robertson examines Cendrars’s work against a turbulent historical background and reassesses his contribution to twentieth-century literature. Robertson shows how Cendrars is as relevant today as ever and deserves a wider readership in the English-speaking world.

Author : Blaise Cendrars
Publisher : New York Review of Books
Page : 249 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2004-08-31
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9781590170632

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Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars Pdf

At once truly appalling and appallingly funny, Blaise Cendrars's Moravagine bears comparison with Naked Lunch—except that it's a lot more entertaining to read. Heir to an immense aristocratic fortune, mental and physical mutant Moravagine is a monster, a man in pursuit of a theorem that will justify his every desire. Released from a hospital for the criminally insane by his starstruck psychiatrist (the narrator of the book), who foresees a companionship in crime that will also be an unprecedented scientific collaboration, Moravagine travels from Moscow to San Antonio to deepest Amazonia, engaged in schemes and scams as, among other things, terrorist, speculator, gold prospector, and pilot. He also enjoys a busy sideline in rape and murder. At last, the two friends return to Europe—just in time for World War I, when "the whole world was doing a Moravagine." This new edition of Cendrars's underground classic is the first in English to include the author's afterword, "How I Wrote Moravagine."

Author : Ron Padgett
Publisher : Coffee House Press
Page : 843 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2013-11-05
Category : Poetry
ISBN : 9781566893428

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Collected Poems by Ron Padgett Pdf

Fifty years of poems and wry insight celebrating one of the most dynamic careers in twentieth century American poetry.

Author : Blaise Cendrars
Publisher : American Reader (Hardcover)
Page : 80 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Fiction
ISBN : UOM:39015034037997

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Christmas at the Four Corners of the Earth by Blaise Cendrars Pdf

The 12 trans-realist prose sketches in Christmas At The Four Corners of The Earth take the reader to Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Rotterdam, China, New Mexico, New Zealand, the Ardennes Forest, and the south Atlantic ocean. We meet a one-armed man playing the piano in a small bungalow under the Southern Cross, a Countess who survives the sinking of a transatlantic steamer and artists who drink and sing through Christmas eve and day. These sketches - working together - are antitheses to traditional and perhaps sentimental Christmas stories. These are not tales of the star, the shepherds and the manger, but of common people confronted by all the beauty, terror, doubt and confusion of the 20th century. What remains? Cendrars's profound vision and a steadfast belief that the incarnation of the spirit does, indeed, endure.