Author: Georgiana M. M. Colvile
Publisher: Editions Rodopi
Keywords: francaise, rodopi, litterature, collection, contemporaine, monograhique, monographique, cendrars, ecrivain, proteiforme, blaise
Number of Pages: 110
Published: 1994-01
List price: $27.00
ISBN-10: 9051836058
ISBN-13: 9789051836059

This book’s aim is to provide a critical bird’s eye view of Blaise Cendrar’s oeuvre, through readings which sample its interdisciplinary diversity, as indicated by the protean metaphor of the title. Colvile’s six essays on the Franco-Swiss literal and literary vagabond have been organized under the headings of Cendrar’s three main genres: poetry, fiction and journalism. The heterogeneous assemblage of verse and prose texts analyzed here with a variety of theoretical approaches, should convey and reflect Cendrars’ eccentricity and intellectual independence,