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Blaise Cendrars
Frédéric-Louis Sauser, 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.
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culture · Swiss-born novelist and poet (1887–1961) · war correspondent · journalist · poet · writer · novelist · travel writer · librettist · designer · French foreign legionnaire · adventurer · also Blaise Cendrars, Frederic Louis Sauser, Frédéric Sauser, Blaise Meliani, Cendrars
Born 1 September 1887 · Died 21 January 1961 · Q123080
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2025· 2 entries
AgoraVox: Blaise Cendrars, le voyageur sans bagage !
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2023· 4 entries
Hyperallergic: How Blaise Cendrars Blazed a Trail Into Modernity
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The New York Times: Blaise Cendrars at the Morgan: A Modern Match of Poetry and Painting
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MutualArt.com: Blaise Cendrars
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Cendrars was the subject of an exhibition, Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961): Poetry Is Everything, at the Morgan Library & Museum
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2022· 1 entry
Le Temps: Blaise Cendrars, «moi, l’homme le plus libre du monde»
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2021· 1 entry
Tribune de Genève: Bientôt un prix Blaise Cendrars à La Chaux-de-Fonds?
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2019· 1 entry
L'Humanité: Théâtre. Souvenirs incandescents de Blaise Cendrars
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2017· 1 entry
Hyperallergic: Blaise Cendrars: A Poet for the Twenty-First Century
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2013· 2 entries
L'Humanité: Blaise Cendrars. L’homme à la main coupée tout entier dans la Pléiade
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Le Temps: Blaise Cendrars, la fabrique d’un écrivain mythique
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2007· 1 entry
Fabula: Blaise Cendrars et ses contemporains
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1995· 1 entry
The Bulgarian poet Kiril Kadiiski claimed to have found one of the Russian translations in Sofia, but the authenticity of the document remains contested on the grounds of factual, typographic, orthographic, and stylistic
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1961· 8 entries
Awarded Grand Prix littéraire de la Ville de Paris (1961).
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Died 1961-01-21.
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“Teraz, kiedy wielkie podróże latem są modne, pytają mnie często, jaka jest najpiękniejsza z wypraw morskich. Najpiękniejsza z pewnością jest ta, która unosi was jak najdalej.”
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“Czym jest najprzepyszniejsze widowisko przyrody, jeśli nie odkryjemy zaszytego wśród niej człowieka, nie ujrzymy go i nie napotkamy?”
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“Kto pisze, ten ogląda swoje życie duchowe. […] Piszemy tylko „siebie.”
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“Ecrire est une vue de l'esprit. C'est un travail ingrat qui mène à la solitude.”
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“Czy to naprawdę warto wysyłać wielkiego człowieka na inspekcję nieznanego kraju, jeśli ten wielki człowiek tak spierniczał, że nie chce mu się pić w upał?”
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“To potrafią tylko dwaj niepoprawni globtroterzy gawędząc chaotycznie, trącając się kieliszkami, a którzy uścisnąwszy sobie ręce na pożegnanie nawet nie pomyślą, by przedstawić się sobie wzajem, tak dalece są pod wrażeniem, że się znają – rozprawiając bowiem o całym świecie, w gruncie rzeczy rozprawiają tylko o sobie samych.”
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1960· 1 entry
André Malraux, the Minister of Culture, awarded him the title of Commander of the Légion d'honneur for his wartime service
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1959· 1 entry
And married Raymone Duchâteau, a French actress
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1958· 1 entry
Awarded Commander of the Legion of Honour (1958).
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1954· 1 entry
A collaboration between Cendrars and Léger resulted in Paris, ma ville ("Paris, My City"), in which the poet and illustrator together expressed their love of the French capital
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1950· 1 entry
Cendrars settled down in the rue Jean-Dolent in Paris, across from the La Santé Prison
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1940· 1 entry
And his book that immediately followed, Chez l'armée anglaise (With the English Army), was seized before publication by the Gestapo, which sought him out and sacked his library in his country home, while he fled into hid
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1919· 2 entries
Under the title Dix-neuf poèmes élastiques ("Nineteen Elastic Poems")
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Contrasted "theoretical cubism" with "the group's three antitheoreticians," Picasso, Braque, and Léger, whom he described as "three strongly personal painters who represent the three successive phases of cubism
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1918· 1 entry
His friend Amedeo Modigliani painted his portrait
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1913· 1 entry
“I like legends, dialects, mistakes of language, detective novels, the flesh of girls, the sun, the Eiffel Tower.”
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1911· 1 entry
Cendrars married his first wife, Féla Poznańska, who was Jewish and of Russo-Polish extraction
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1907· 1 entry
Sauser returned to Switzerland, where he studied medicine at the University of Berne
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1904· 1 entry
Left school due to poor performance and began an apprenticeship with a Swiss watchmaker in Russia
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1902· 1 entry
Met his lifelong friend the sculptor August Suter
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1887· 1 entry
Born 1887-09-01.
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