Blaise Cendrars: The Invention of Life by Eric Robertson (Reaktion Books, 2022)
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There are thousands of writers who I adore, but only a few that influenced my work, and among the very few is Blaise Cendrars. Specifically, his poetry reads to me like newspaper headlines filtered through a humorous sensibility, but he also appreciates language and how it is used. Cendrars is also a writer with an image, like Henry Miller, Hemingway, and even Charles Bukowski, and such an image is something sellable to the reading public. This one-armed tobacco-stained fingered author is the classic figure of what we think of a writer who lived his life in adventurous times. And Cendrars did live a magnificent (although exaggerated) life. But for this reader, his image is the least important compared to his prose writing style and poetic discrimination.
Blaise Cendrars: The Invention of Life by Eric Robertson (Reaktion Books, 2022)
Blaise Cendrars: The Invention of Life by…
Blaise Cendrars: The Invention of Life by Eric Robertson (Reaktion Books, 2022)
There are thousands of writers who I adore, but only a few that influenced my work, and among the very few is Blaise Cendrars. Specifically, his poetry reads to me like newspaper headlines filtered through a humorous sensibility, but he also appreciates language and how it is used. Cendrars is also a writer with an image, like Henry Miller, Hemingway, and even Charles Bukowski, and such an image is something sellable to the reading public. This one-armed tobacco-stained fingered author is the classic figure of what we think of a writer who lived his life in adventurous times. And Cendrars did live a magnificent (although exaggerated) life. But for this reader, his image is the least important compared to his prose writing style and poetic discrimination.