Cendrars posing in the uniform of the Légion étrangère in 1916, a few months after the amputation of his right arm
Born
Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1887-09-01)1 September 1887 La Chaux-de-Fonds, Neuchâtel, Switzerland
Died
21 January 1961(1961-01-21) (aged 73) Paris, France
Occupation
Novelist, poet
Literary movement
Modernism, Futurism
Notable works
Moravagine
Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961),[1] better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.
^Cendrars, Blaise (1992). Complete poems. Berkeley: University of California Press. p. xxii. ISBN 9780520065802.
Frédéric-Louis Sauser (1 September 1887 – 21 January 1961), better known as BlaiseCendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French...
Moravagine is a 1926 novel by BlaiseCendrars, originally published by Grasset. It is a complex opus with a central figure, the eponymous Moravagine,...
Portrait of BlaiseCendrars is a 1917 oil on card painting by Amedeo Modigliani, showing the French writer BlaiseCendrars. Formerly part of the Riccardo...
literature's. French literature has Charles Peguy, Guillaume Apollinaire, and BlaiseCendrars (who lost his right arm at the Second Battle of Champagne). Italian...
and Pablo Picasso. Doisneau worked with writers and poets such as BlaiseCendrars and Jacques Prévert, and he credited Prevert with giving him the confidence...
include Marcel Aymé, Roland Barthes, René Barjavel, Michel Butor, BlaiseCendrars, Paul Claudel, Jean Cocteau, Julio Cortázar, François Mauriac, Rick...
influence was her connection with experimental poets, most notably BlaiseCendrars, whose work explored the effect of startling juxtapositions. Together...
of peasants and mountain dwellers, set in a harsh environment, and BlaiseCendrars (born Frédéric Sauser, 1887–1961). Italian and Romansh-speaking authors...
the poet BlaiseCendrars who was to become her friend and collaborator. Sonia Delaunay described in an interview that the discovery of Cendrars' work “gave...
(In Search of Lost Time) Albert Cohen François Mauriac Louis Aragon BlaiseCendrars Samuel Beckett - Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable, How It Is André...
of Sky Memoirs by BlaiseCendrars won the Florence Gould Translation Prize in 1993. The astonished man: a novel by BlaiseCendrars, 1970. Translated from...
of incomplete or partially lost films List of longest films Notes Cendrars, Blaise (1995). Hollywood: Mecca of the Movies. Berkeley: University of California...
Eugene Bullard American poet Alan Seeger Swiss poet, French naturalized BlaiseCendrars Lieutenant Colonel Prince Count Aage of Rosenborg Italian writer, Curzio...
films (like the 1917 The Immigrant), books (like the 1925 L'Or by BlaiseCendrars) and plays (like the 1938 Mother Courage which is set in the Thirty...
developed friendships with the actor Victor Francen and the writer BlaiseCendrars. While in Brussels, Gance wrote his first film scenarios, which he...
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