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About this book
A new account of the life and work of innovative, pseudonymous French poet, novelist, essayist, and film writer Blaise Cendrars. In 1912 the young FrƩdƩric-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 LƩger 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.
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Table of contents
- Front Cover
- Half Title
- Title Page
- Copyright
- CONTENTS
- Introduction
- 1 Birth of a Poet: From Sauser to Cendrars
- 2 Profound Today: Poetry Before and After the Great War
- 3 Through the Lens: Writing, Photography, Cinema
- 4 Crossing the Line: Cendrarsās American Odysseys
- 5 A Dangerous Mind: Moravagine
- 6 Polar Extremes: Le Plan de lāAiguille and Les Confessions de Dan Yack
- 7 Extraordinary Lives: From Homer to Hollywood
- 8 Memoirs Without Being Memoirs: Reinventing the Self
- 9 Memoirs of Sea and Sky: Bourlinguer and Le Lotissement du ciel
- 10 From the Suburbs of Paris to the End of the World
- Conclusion: An Enduring Modernity
- REFERENCES
- SELECT BIBLIOGRAPHY
- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- PHOTO ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
- INDEX