Panama or the adventures of my seven uncles.
Fata Morgana| N° d'inventaire | 23691 |
| Format | 19 x 23 |
| Détails | 40 p., paperback. |
| Publication | Saint-Clement-de-Rivière, 2015 |
| Etat | Nine |
| ISBN | 9782851949387 |
“To Raymone, this poem that is believed to be the last of its kind and which is the first of a new art”: this dedication speaks of the major importance that Blaise Cendrars accorded to this long poem published by Éditions de la Sirène in 1918. Written in 1914, these verses are steeped in an exalted modernity at the turn of two centuries when the stock market catastrophe linked to the Panama scandal, the starting point of this adventure, allowed the young Cendrars to invent a tragic and heroic ancestry, to establish a link between economic disaster and poetic ascension. For Cendrars, no end is an end, an end is always a new birth.
We are providing a facsimile of the original edition, with the cover designed by Dufy.
“To Raymone, this poem that is believed to be the last of its kind and which is the first of a new art”: this dedication speaks of the major importance that Blaise Cendrars accorded to this long poem published by Éditions de la Sirène in 1918. Written in 1914, these verses are steeped in an exalted modernity at the turn of two centuries when the stock market catastrophe linked to the Panama scandal, the starting point of this adventure, allowed the young Cendrars to invent a tragic and heroic ancestry, to establish a link between economic disaster and poetic ascension. For Cendrars, no end is an end, an end is always a new birth.
We are providing a facsimile of the original edition, with the cover designed by Dufy.