Moravagine
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9782246108856 (2246108853)
Publish date: March 2011
Publisher: Grasset
Pages no: 282
Edition language: French
I couldn't decide whether to give this 3 stars or 4 stars (not that anyone would care either way). Cendrars seems to have hated this book..., having begun it in 1917, he was still trying to finish it as he crossed the Equator on a boat to Rio in 1924. He simply couldn't stand the "turgid, pretenti...
I would have liked to like this book.I would have loved to like this book.I would have appreciated something more than the tedium I felt in the face of its forced exuberance.I much enjoy Cendrars's poetry, and think I shall be sticking to that in the future.
Book Circle Reads 17Rating: 3 sickened stars of five The Book Description: 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 muta...
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