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Complete Poems (Paperback)
Blaise Cendrars; Translated by Ron Padgett; Introduction by Jay Bochner
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Blaise Cendrars was a pioneer of modernist literature. The full
range of his poetry--from classical rhymed alexandrines to "cubist"
modernism, and from feverish, even visionary, depression to airy
good humor--offers a challenge no translator has accepted until
now. Here, for the first time in English translation, is the
complete poetry of a legendary twentieth-century French writer.
Cendrars, born Frederick Louis Sauser in 1887, invented his life as
well as his art. His adventures took him to Russia during the
revolution of 1905 (where he traveled on the Trans-Siberian
Railway), to New York in 1911, to the trenches of World War I
(where he lost his right arm), to Brazil in the 1920s, to Hollywood
in the 1930s, and back and forth across Europe. With Guillaume
Apollinaire and Max Jacob he was a pioneer of modernist literature,
working alongside artist friends such as Chagall, Delaunay,
Modigliani, and Leger, composers Eric Satie and Darius Milhaud, and
filmmaker Abel Gance. The range of Cendrars's poetry--from
classical rhymed alexandrines to "cubist" modernism, and from
feverish, even visionary, depression to airy good humor--offers a
challenge no translator has accepted until now.
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Hollywood - Mecca of the Movies (Hardcover)
Blaise Cendrars; Translated by Garrett White; Introduction by Garrett White; Illustrated by Jean Guerin
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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' 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 Guerin's witty drawings, and following the
tradition of European travel writing, Cendrars' 'little book about
Hollywood' offers an astute, entertaining look at 1930s America as
reflected in its unique movie mecca.
One of the great figures of modern French literature. Swiss-born in
1887, but French to the core in spirit, Cendrars roamed the world
for many years, a restless seeker who made life an adventure and
his novels and poems the record of a never-satisfied appetite for
human experience. As a young man he reached the Orient across
Russia, and "The Transsiberian," one of his finest long poems is
included in this volume. Over the years, a number of Cendrars'
works were translated into English--early among them, in 1931, John
Dos Passos' brilliant version of "Panama, or the Adventures of My
Seven Uncles" (reprinted in this collection)--but all are now out
of print here, so that this selection from the whole range of
Cendrars is most timely. It has been prepared by Professor Walter
Albert of Brandeis University, whose long introductory essay is the
most detailed biographical and critical study of Cendrars now
available in English. While the greater part of the selection is
concentrated on Cendrars' poetry (with the French text printed en
face), there are also representative excerpts from the major novels
and other prose books, as well as several essays, including
impressions of Chagall and Picasso.
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