Modernities and Other Writings

by Esther Allen and Blaise Cendrars

Book Overview

Blaise Cendrars was the pseudonym of Frederic-Louis Sauser (1887-1961), a Swiss-born poet and novelist. A contemporary of Apollinaire and Max Jacob, and a friend of Chagall and Modigliani, he must be reckoned with as a prophetic voice. Of all the avant-garde writers, he was the one most attuned to our age; hence the title of this collection of his short prose works. Modernities represents the poet at his most intense. The seven essays consider modern...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0803214391
• ISBN13: 9780803214392
• Release Date: January 1992
• Publisher: University of Nebraska Press
• Length: 134 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.8" x 9.3"