True Tales from the Life and Times of Blaise Cendrars, the World's Greatest Vagabond The Crucible: The Savage Quest for Literary Gold

by MacKinnon, David

• ISBN13: 9781771839938
• ISBN10: 1771839937
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2025-10-01
• Publisher: Guernica Editions

Summary

Blaise Cendrars takes us into the crucible of his waking dreams, when he set out to swallow the world whole and then recreate it in his own image. During the course of his personal investigations at a vital juncture of the evolution of art, Cendrars was constantly on the prowl, and analyzing the works of the cronies he frequented daily: Modigliani, Picasso, Fernand Léger, Chagall. For Cendrars, there is not even truth, there is only action, and this volume bears testimony to the visceral impulses of this yet-to-be known monster of the world of letters, art, media and adventure who in his own words, dipped his pen into the inkwell of life.

Author Biography

David J. MacKinnon is a Sorbonne graduate in history cum laude, a member of two law societies, and has translated for the international criminal tribunals of Rwanda, the Hague and Yugoslavia. He serves on the Board of Directors of the Canadian Association of Legal Translators, and is co-founder and Director of the Long March to Rome, an indigenous-led mission seeking repeal of the Papal Bulls of Discovery. In earlier days, he worked as oil field roughneck, toilet factory worker, longshoreman and morgue attendant. He has walked the ancient Santiago de Compostela pilgrim’s trail and to Chartres several times. His previous books include Leper Tango, The Eel, The Voluntary Crucifixion, and a critically-acclaimed translation of radio interviews of the French vagabond poet Blaise Cendrars in Blaise Cendrars Speaks.