tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post6276156078929218744..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: A glance at the complete poems of Blaise Cendrars - Your menus / Are the new poetryAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-79263453961812703072019-12-29T15:24:19.972-06:002019-12-29T15:24:19.972-06:00Happy holidays to you, too. The Mauriac, Thérèse ...Happy holidays to you, too. The Mauriac, <i>Thérèse Desqueyroux</i>, it was good. It was worth reading. You must - one must - I had to kind of ignore the looming Nobel Prize - those folks are nuts - but that was easy enough.<br /><br />I should write squibs on the Mauriac novels sometime, I suppose.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-17428936606745968462019-12-28T18:32:13.397-06:002019-12-28T18:32:13.397-06:00Happy holidays AR(T). What did you think of the Ma...Happy holidays AR(T). What did you think of the Mauriac? He's a very particular writer. Cleanthesshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15363416290397892659noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-88565061877527217572019-12-08T14:49:35.353-06:002019-12-08T14:49:35.353-06:00The French edition I read was up to date, with som...The French edition I read was up to date, with some detail about the fake Cendrars poem and some speculation about the original Cendrars hoax, meaning: why did Cendrars ever claim that a poem with this title existed? But that is part of the fun with this kind of poet, a Borgesian before the fact.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-78837143993160169982019-12-08T08:12:33.753-06:002019-12-08T08:12:33.753-06:00I love Cendrars! Back in 2007 I posted about the ...I love Cendrars! Back in 2007 I <a href="http://languagehat.com/la-legende-de-novgorode/" rel="nofollow">posted</a> about the scandal of the alleged finding of the lost poem “La Légende de Novgorode”; as best I can determine a dozen years later, it's pretty much agreed that it was a fake.Languagehathttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13285708503881129380noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-85880238918931877732019-12-06T09:06:49.215-06:002019-12-06T09:06:49.215-06:00It's a great book (it's this one), full of...It's a great book (it's <a href="http://www.gallimard.fr/Catalogue/GALLIMARD/Poesie-Gallimard/Du-monde-entier-au-coeur-du-monde" rel="nofollow">this one</a>), full of terrific notes and timelines and so on. Very helpful.<br /><br />It does not include that poster though! "Transsibérien" is just in plain ol' print.<br /><br />The Gold Rush novel is his first, the point where he abandoned poetry for fiction. It was a big hit, which could not have hurt. Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-70847763959075325662019-12-06T07:26:45.372-06:002019-12-06T07:26:45.372-06:00The book sounds like a delight. Cendrars seems to ...The book sounds like a delight. Cendrars seems to have written about everything and everywhere. I did a double-take at the Robert Louis Stevenson house in Monterey, CA a few years ago when I saw a novel he'd written about the California gold rush on display. <br /><br />What a striking thing, that Transiberian collage-painting-poem. There's a 2008 facsimile edition from the Beinecke Library available if you have - *cough* - $1,700 to cough up. seraillonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/17654593356535433945noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-71549789600680068912019-12-05T09:26:24.913-06:002019-12-05T09:26:24.913-06:00Yes! I'm trying to keep some room on the calen...Yes! I'm trying to keep some room on the calendar and not just cram it with museums and teas and roasts.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-73136863731190360142019-12-05T08:54:09.511-06:002019-12-05T08:54:09.511-06:00Oooh, do get in touch, would love to meet up with ...Oooh, do get in touch, would love to meet up with you in London!Marina Sofiahttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15251903359649828285noreply@blogger.com