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Blaise Cendrars and
Alan Brown
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Peter Owen Ltd
Publication date
May 1, 2002
Pages
253
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Fiction
ISBN-13
9780720610970
ISBN-10
0720610974
Dimensions
0.75 by 4.50 by 7 in.
Weight
0.55 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$15.95
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Moravagine | Complete Poems | Dan Yack | Confessions of Dan Yack | The Astonished Man | Gold | Sky | Days Between Stations | Selected Writings of Blaise Cendrars
Moravagine | Complete Poems | Dan Yack | Confessions of Dan Yack | The Astonished Man | Gold | Sky | Days Between Stations | Selected Writings of Blaise Cendrars
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Amazon.com description: Product Description:
Blaise Cendrarsâ last novel is an original and often very funny portrayal of the Parisian criminal underworld of the late 1940s that crackles with the fires of an abundant imagination. Yet To the End of the World is not total invention as, like all Cendrarsâ works, it has some basis in real life. The narrative races between a Foreign Legion barracks in North Africa and the theaters, cafes, dosshouses, and police headquarters of postwar Paris. The central character in this roman à clef is Thérèse, a septuagenarian actress who was once the rival of Sarah Berhardt herself. Her passionate affair with a young deserter from the Foreign Legion (in which Cendrars himself served) is interrupted by the murder of a barman and the impact this event has on all their lives. With its bold and colorful supporting castÂa subterranean gallery of ex-legionnaires, theater types, black marketeers, dubious aristocrats, sexual adventurers, and freaksÂentwined with numerous subplots and minor themes, To the End of the World amounts to a grandly picaresque adventure. When it appeared in France in 1956, it offered a ready antedote to the sense of negativity and existential futility that pervaded many novels of the era.
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Hardcover
Reprint edition from Peter Owen Ltd (September 1, 1991)
9780720608199 | details & prices | 5.75 × 8.75 × 1.00 in. | 1.00 lbs | List price $32.00
About: A Parisian actress in her late 70s, with an active stage and sex life, is held for questioning after the murder of a barkeeper.
About: A Parisian actress in her late 70s, with an active stage and sex life, is held for questioning after the murder of a barkeeper.
Paperback
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from Peter Owen Ltd (May 1, 2002)
9780720610970 | details & prices | 253 pages | 4.50 × 7.00 × 0.75 in. | 0.55 lbs | List price $15.95
About: Blaise Cendrarsâ last novel is an original and often very funny portrayal of the Parisian criminal underworld of the late 1940s that crackles with the fires of an abundant imagination.
About: Blaise Cendrarsâ last novel is an original and often very funny portrayal of the Parisian criminal underworld of the late 1940s that crackles with the fires of an abundant imagination.
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