2023-04-22 05:20:11
Chronicle “How it is written”
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“Dan Yack” is the fourth of fifteen volumes that will include the new edition of the Complete Works at Denoël by the backpacking writer. Where we see an English billionaire too rich to be interested in money landing in Antarctica.
“He has joyful modernity”writes Claude Leroy of Blaise Cendrars in his preface to Dan Yackthe fourth of the fifteen volumes that will comprise the new edition of Complete Works (appear at the same time volumes 5 and 6, made up around the thunderstruck man and of the severed hand). Cendrars was born Frédéric Louis Sauser and Swiss in 1887 and died French in 1961. In 1929 he published both the Plan de l’Aiguille et the Confessions of Dan Yack which he brought together in a single volume in 1946. Here is how Claude Leroy defines the hero of the first part: “He dies in his life as a Petersburg partygoer to be reborn as an ascetic on a desert island, then as an entrepreneur of universal happiness in Port-Déception.” And the genre of the work: “In a resolutely unrealistic mode, the novel presents itself as a philosophical tale where the pleasure of telling prevails over the philosophical lesson.”
The ice floe is an important setting in the book, but not only. In Blaise Cendrars speaks to you…radio interviews with Michel Manoll, the author, happy that we compared his text at the end of the Adventures of Arthur Gordon Pym Edgar Poe says: “Until my sentences which began to freeze, to crack, to melt, to lose their balance, to turn over, to explode, to drift away, to crush each other co
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