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Moravagine

Literature & Fiction

Blaise Cendrars

Classics

Penguin??Books

Shadow lives in the forest... It goes forth at night to prowl around the fires. It even likes to mingle with the dancers... Shadow... It waves with the grasses, curls up at the foot of trees... But in the African experience Shadow is much more. The village storytellers and shamans of an Africa that is passing into memory called forth for the poet Blaise Cendrars an eerie image, shifting between the beliefs of the present and the spirits of the past. Shadow... It does not cry out, it has no voice... It can cast a spell over you... It follows man everywhere, even to war... Marcia Brown's stunning illustrations in collage, inspired by her travels in Africa, evoke the atmosphere and drama of a life now haunted, now enchanted by Shadow.

Shadow

Children's Books

Atheneum Books for Young Readers

The Astonished Man

Dufour Editions

« Rij était une pouffiasse, une femme-tonneau qui devait peser dans les 110, les 120 kilos. Je n'ai jamais vu un tel monument de chairs croulantes, débordantes. Elle passait sa journée et sa nuitée dans un fauteuil capitonné, fabriqué spécialement pour elle et qu'elle ne cessait d'ornementer, d'enrubanner, lui tressant des faveurs, des nœuds, des lacets d'or et d'argent... »

Planus

Biographies & Memoirs

Peter Owen Ltd

Scribner

Therese is a bawdy Parisian actress in her seventies enjoying an energetic affair with a young deserter from the Foreign Legion. Disaster strikes when she is held for questioning following the murder of a local barman. The End of the World is not pure invention. Like all Cendrars's works it has some basis in his adventures and nomadic life; but this roman-a-clef is an original and very funny portrayal of the Paris of the late 1940s and is very much the product of an abundant imagination.

Emmene Moi Au Bout De Monde

French & European Pubns

At once truly appalling and appallingly funny, Blaise Cendrars's Moravagine bears comparison with Naked Lunchâ€”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 Europeâ€”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."

Literary

Blast Books

Poet, novelist, filmmaker, soldier and war journalist in the two great wars, raconteur, rounder and roustabout, Blaise Cendrars blazed an arc across the star-lit skies of modernity. Originally published by Denoel in 1952, Cendrars Speaks... is a collection of radio interviews and memories of his life and times. From Surrealism to Cubism to the French novel, Cendrars was enormously influential the heir of Rimbaud and the precursor of the beat poets and of Marshall Mcluhan. He was a close collaborator and crony of Léger, Modigliani, Chagall, and venerated by Henry Miller. John Dos Passos immortalized him as the Homer of the Transsiberian . But Cendrars, unlike most of his contemporaries, also marked his era as a participant and front-line witness to the tragic events of the twentieth century. Cendrars own experience and compassion transformed him into a Cassandra-figure who sounded early warnings that modernism was reeling out of control at the expense of our common humanity. It is all here in these remarkable oral memoirs the theft of the Mona Lisa for which Apollinaire was accused, his drinking bouts with Modigliani, the caustic asides on Breton and Picasso, his days in the circus with Chaplin, his friendships with tziganes and train robbers, whaling in the south seas, the pathos of the last days of Apollinaire, and the tragedy of having his works destroyed by the Gestapo and being falsely placed on the infamous Otto List as a Jewish writer. Through these intimate interviews with his good friend Michel Manoll, Blaise Cendrars shares the extraordinary fruits of his legendary life and offers us an inside look into Paris between the wars.

Blaise Cendrars Speaks...

Editor)

David MacKinnon

Jim Christy

Translator

Ekstasis Editions

Sous le signe de François Villon : Lettre dédicatoire à mon premier éditeur - Prochronie 1901 : Vol à voile - Prochronie 1911 : Le «Sans-Nom» - Prochronie 1921 : Une nuit dans la forêt. Autour de «Sous le signe de François Villon» : Lettre dédicatoire à mon premier éditeur (passage supprimé) - Jéroboam et La Sirène - Présentation de «Bourlingueur des mers du Sud». L'Homme foudroyé. Autour de «L'Homme foudroyé» : Plans de «La Carissima» - Lettres à Raymone - «La Carissima» (fragments) - Plan autographe de «Sara, Rhapsodie gitane». La Main coupée. Autour de «La Main coupée» : Notre grande offensive - Un caporal de la Légion - J'ai tué - La Main coupée (1918) - Vient de paraître - Matricule 1529 - La Femme et le Soldat.

Oeuvres Autobiographiques Complete tome I [Bibliotheque de la Pleiade] (French Edition)

Henriette Jelinek

Genre Fiction

French and European Publications Inc

Oeuvres Autobiographiques Completes Tome II {Bibliotheque de la Pleiade] (French Edition)

Therese Delpech

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