Moravagine / Blaise Cendrars ; translated from the French by Alan Brown ; introduction by Paul La Farge.

• Part 1. The spirit of an age -- Internship -- An international sanitorium -- Case histories and files -- Part 2. Life of Moravagine, an idiot -- His origins-his childhood -- His escape -- Our disguises -- Arrival in Berlin -- His education -- Jack the Ripper -- Arrival in Russia -- Mascha -- Crossing the Atlantic -- Our rambles in America -- The Blue Indians -- Back to Paris -- Aviation -- The war -- Sainte Marguerite Island -- Morphine -- The planet Mars -- Case histories and files.

• "At once truly appalling and appallingly funny, Blaise Cendrars's Moravagine bears comparison with Naked Lunch except that it's a lot more entertaining to read. Heir to an immense aristocratic fortune, mental and physical mutant Moravagine is a monster, a man in pursuit of a theorem that will justify his every desire. Released from a hospital for the criminally insane by his starstruck psychiatrist (the narrator of the book), who foresees a companionship in crime that will also be an unprecedented scientific collaboration, Moravagine travels from Moscow to San Antonio to deepest Amazonia, engaged in schemes and scams as, among other things, terrorist, speculator, gold prospector, and pilot. He also enjoys a busy sideline in rape and murder. At last, the two friends return to Europe just in time for World War I, when "the whole world was doing a Moravagine"--Publisher's description. 

Ämnesord

French fiction.  (LCSH)

Genre

Romaner  (saogf)

Personnamn

Cendrars, Blaise, 1887-1961 -- Translations into English.

Indexterm och SAB-rubrik

He.01 Skönlitteratur: engelska: romaner och noveller

Klassifikation

823 (DDC)

He.01 (kssb/8)