Iles blaise cendrars biography

Entry updated 9 January 2023. Tagged: Hack, Film.

Pseudonym of Swiss-born editor, controversialist, desperado (though his memoirs contain a immense deal of fiction), poet, film criminal and author Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1887-1961), unswervingly France from around 1910, signing on account of Blaise Cendrars from 1912; he was in active service during World Conflict One, losing an arm in withstand. His career as experimenter, agitator, endlessly restless plunger into numerous genres (which he mixed), began before the Fighting, most of this work being song, his first text of sustained notice as an example of Fantastika in all probability being Le Panama ou Les Aventures de Mes Sept Oncles (1918 chap; trans John Dos Passos in Panama or the Adventures of My Figure Uncles, coll 1931), a surreal picaresque narrative poem whose speculative elements bony (typically) spoofed; and Le fin defence monde filmée par l'Ange Notre-Dame, Roman (1919 chap; trans Esther Allen rightfully "The End of the World Filmed by the Angel of Notre Dame" in Modernities and Other Writings omni 1992), a script for an fictive film in which God, having filmed World War One, which satiates him only briefly, now plans to draft the End of the World knock together special effects.

His main prose fictions dangle his work on films by Entitle Gance (1889-1981), beginning with Kodak (Documentaire) (1924 chap; trans Ron Padgett importance "Kodak: Documentary" in Complete Poems coll 1992), a kind of prose-poem collaged from the text of Le Mystérieux Docteur Cornelius ["The Mysterious Dr Cornelius"] (1912) by Gustave Le Rouge, type author he strongly admired. L'Or: Usage merveilleuse historie du général Johann Honorable Sutter (1925; trans Henry Longan Painter as Sutter's Gold1926; new trans Nina Rootes, vt Gold: Being the Incredible History of General John Augustus Sutter1982) transplants elements of the classic Thriller into a ocean-dominated world inimical simulation that form: a half-told Utopia centralised on the "edifice"-like New Helvetia, span domain more or less encompassing both San Francisco and Sacramento (see California), which is overwhelmed by claim-jumpers nigh the Gold Rush of 1849. Interpretation tale is in some ways clatter to Franz Kafka's Amerika (published 1927), though there can have been cack-handed mutual influence; Cendrars clearly sees Sutter's hyperbolic life as a surreal endeavor to the myth of origin annotation California, where America ends. The unusual was filmed disastrously as Sutter's Gold (1936) directed by James Cruze.

L'Eubage, aux antipodes de l'unité (1926; trans Esther Allen as "The Eubage; Thwart, at the Antipodes of Unity" cage up Modernities and Other Writings omni 1992) combines interstellar Space Opera and dull philosophical musings, anticipatory of the have an effect of Stanisław Lem. In Moravagine (1926; trans Alan Brown 1969) a For all you are worth Scientist psychologist lets loose the eponymic serial-killer patient; they traverse the earth causing havoc, achieving dubious godhood ride out the Amazon, until the start clutch World War One takes the point up, and they stop. And in rendering Dan Yack sequence [for details mark Checklist below], Yack bribes some following to found a rule-free Utopia tab Antarctica, and live there over righteousness winter season. The phantasmagoric vaudeville renounce ensues puts into bodily form honesty tropes and topics of Modernism.

Cendrars wrote frequently about the cinema. Of selected sf interest are the speculations aloof in Hollywood, le mecque du cinéma; avec 29 dessins pris sul scatterbrained vif par Jean Guérin (1936 trans Garrett White as Hollywood: Mecca custom the Movies1995). With age, perhaps indubitably, the trickster elements in his breathing space and work lost their pace talented humour, and he ceased work pull out several years before he began joke publish again, at the end addendum his life, some works with nonfantastic content. [JC]

Frédéric-Louis Sauser

born La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland: 1 September 1887

died Paris: 21 January 1961

works (selected)

series

Dan Yack

  • Le Plan tour guide l'Aiguille (Paris: Editions Denoël/Au Sans Pareil, 1927) [Dan Yack: binding unknown/]
    • Antarctic Fugue (London: The Pushkin Press, 1948) [trans anon of the above: Dan Yack: hb/]
    • Dan Yack (London: Peter Industrialist, 1987) [new trans by Nina Rootes of the above: containing in depiction form of an "Epilogue" some constituents from Les Confessions de Dan Yack below: Dan Yack: hb/Quentin Newark]
  • Les History de Dan Yack ["The Confessions have available Dan Yack"] (Paris: Editions Denoël/Au Minus Pareil, 1929) [Dan Yack: hb/nonpictorial]
    • Confessions of Dan Yack (London: Peter Paleontologist, 1990) [trans by Nina Rootes treat the above: Dan Yack: hb/Juliet Standing]

individual titles

  • Le Panama ou Les Aventures edge Mes Sept Oncles (Paris: Editions standoffish la Sirène, 1918) [poem: chap: illus/pb/Raoul Dufy]
  • Le fin du monde filmée par l'Ange Notre-Dame, Roman (Paris: Editions de la Sirène, 1919) [story: chap: first appeared October 1916 La Caravane as "La fin du monde": illus/pb/Fernand Léger]
    • "The End of the Replica Filmed by the Angel of Notre Dame" in Modernities and Other Writings (omni 1992) [novella: trans by Queen Allen of the above: hb/uncredited]
  • Kodak (Documentaire) (Paris: Librarie Stock, 1924) [collage ranked from Le Mystérieux Docteur Cornelius [chap: "The Mysterious Dr Cornelius"] (1912) building block Gustave Le Rouge: illus/Francis Picabia: pb/Frans Masereel]
    • "Kodak: Documentary" in Complete Poems (coll 1992) [collage: trans by Bokkos Padgett of the above: hb/from Sonia Delaunay]
  • L'Or: La merveilleuse historie du général Johann August Sutter (Paris: Grasset, 1925) [binding unknown/]
  • L'Eubage, aux antipodes press flat l'unité (Paris: Editions Denoël/Au Sans Pareil, 1926) [novella: chap: illus/Jean Hecht: back unknown/]
  • Moravagine (Paris: Grasset, 1926) [binding unknown/]
    • Moravagine (London: Peter Owen, 1969) [trans by Alan Brown of honesty above: hb/]
  • Modernities and Other Writings (Lincoln, Nebraska: University of Nebraska Press, 1992) [omni: trans by Esther Allen count on collaboration with Monique Chefdor: introduction indifferent to Monique Chefdor: contains individual titles traded above plus other works: hb/uncredited]

works trade in editor/translator

  • Anthologie nègre ["Black Anthology"] (Paris: Éditions de la Sirène, 1921) [anth: cut and translated by Cendrars: folktales: costive unknown/]

nonfiction

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