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MORAVAGINE
by: Blaise (pen name used by Frederic Sauser) (translated from the French by Alan Brown) Cendrars

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Binding: Paperback
EAN: 9780140039658
Format: Import
ISBN: 0140039651
Label: Penguin Modern Classics
Manufacturer: Penguin Modern Classics
Number Of Pages: 216
Publication Date: 1979
Publisher: Penguin Modern Classics
Sales Rank: 5449947
Studio: Penguin Modern Classics

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- Moravagine is modernity
Every time I read this there is a new layer of meaning that jumps out; from the adventure story examining the limits and constraints of human nature to Cendrars' brilliant digressions in which each one paragraph could be fodder for entire books. It will have you rethink what it means to be human.

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- Exquisitely depraved travelogue
This may be described as an exquisitely depraved travelogue of regions both geographic and psychological. Other reviewers have more than adequately laid out the storyline and in that regard I have nothing to add. I will simply admonish readers that this is not a book for the queasy, the timid, or those of a markedly nervous disposition. That said, if you took pleasure from Oscar Wilde's The Portrait of Dorian Gray, J.K. Huysmans' A Rebours (Against Nature), or, stretching a bit, even the fantastical satire of The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov, then this decadent, entertaining romp may be just what the "doctor" ordered. But you have been warned: I accept no responsibility for psychotic breaks triggered by this gruesome literary morsel.

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- masculine violence in the face of absurdity
i'm sure i'll lose my membership card as a nihilist, but i found this book to be a waste of my time. the characters are tiresome in their quest for life, the title character always committing acts of violence for no reason, usually against women, while the character documenting Moravagine is obviously utterly in love with him.

like others i'm sure i was drawn to Cendrars because of Henry Miller's recommendation, but i am disappointed. i have recently found a number of books of this negative trend that seem to offer nothing, but think themselves documenting life as a plate of maggots. most of the book centers around the characters' involvements as pre-soviet Russian revolutionaries. then follows their escapades with natives in South America, etc. the treatment of women in this book is utterly grotesque.

the characters complain about the horrors of man but are the worst example of ... Read More

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- Voyage Surprise
"The Prose of the Trans-Siberian" poem remains my favorite piece of Cendrars writing but this novel is a close second. I passed my copy around and everyone that had a go at it praised the thrills it delivers. Cendrars is a character who seems to have known everyone and been everywhere during those wild experimental years at the beginning of the last century. He documented his many careers(he had a go at just about every art form) in four volumes of biography. Three of which I think are available. He also lost a hand in WW1 and wrote a very beautiful poem about it, such is the magnanimity of this soul who was such a restless originator of new forms it seems he could have single handedly brought about modernism all on his own. Of course his many friends (of which Picasso was one) did what they could too. As a poet his reputation is solid, as a novelist he is still gaining ground as his books begin to reappear after ... Read More

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