His father, an inventorbusinessman, was swiss, his mother scottish. Like her father before her in the great war, during the second world war she joined the french resistance in london where she had a radio programme addressing the children of free france in babar, elephant francais libre. Il a le bec noir, les pattes roses et deux petits yeux gris. Lor est une oeuvre qui mele fiction, poesie et histoire. He was a writer of considerable influence in the european modernist movement. Paul le farge points out in his learned introduction to the nyrb edition of this tremendous novel that, as blaise cendrars is the alter ego of the author, federic sauser, so is moravagine blaise cendrars alter ego. One of his children, miriam cendrars, presently 97 years of age, has perpetuated cendrars work in the centre detudes blaise cendrars cebc in switzerland. Blaise cendrars poems, quotations and biography on blaise cendrars poet page. See more ideas about robert doisneau, sonia delaunay and robert delaunay. Les cahiers rouges french edition kindle edition by cendrars, blaise. Il fugua a 16 ans pour aller a moscou dans le transsiberien. He was a writer of considerable influence in the modernist movement. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading moravagine.
Fredericlouis sauser 1 september 1887 21 january 1961, better known as blaise cendrars, was a swissborn novelist and poet who became a naturalized french citizen in 1916. These arent your average war memoirs, they are the strangest and. Read all poems of blaise cendrars and infos about blaise cendrars. The hazy world of blaise cendrars books the guardian. Blaise cendrars, frenchspeaking poet and essayist who created a powerful new poetic style to express a life of action and danger. Ses premiers poemes sont publies a paris en 1912 sous le. Moravagine, perhaps the sole authentic descendant of the last king of hungary, perhaps merely a hallucination is a dark little. A ses debuts, il utilise brievement les pseudonymes freddy sausey, jack lee et diogene.
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