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Blaise Cendrars

Biography

Blaise Cendrars (Friedrich Ludwig [Frédéric] Sauser, bilingual)
Born: La-Chaux-de-Fonds, Switzerland, 1887-09-01
Died: Paris 1961-01-21

Lyrics (before 1925)
Les Paques à New York
Prose du Transsibérien
La main coupée (1918)
La femme et le soldat
Poèmes élastiques (poems, 1919)
L'Or [Gold] (novel, 1925)
about the Life of General Sutter, a Swiss pioneer in California who lost everything in the goldrush
this novel was regarded as scandalous in the U.S.A.
Moravagine (novel, 1926)
Petits contes nègres pour les enfants des Blancs (1928)
Dan Yack (autobiography, 1929)
Histoires vraies [True Stories] (1937, 1938)
L'homme foudroyé (autobiography, 1945)
Bourlinguer (1948)
Emmène-moi au bout du monde (novel, 1956, featuring Madame Thérèse)

"He rediscovered poetry for France" (André Malraux, French writer)
"He made Brasilians more Brasilian" (Gilberto Freyre)


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