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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Cendrars, Blaise, 1887-1961.

Contributor:

Brown, Alan, 1920-

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Series:

New York Review Books classics

Standardized Title:

Moravagine. English

Language:

English

French

Genre:

Fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Physical Description:

xviii, 229 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm.

Place of Publication:

New York : New York Review Books, [2004]

Summary:

At once appalling and appallingly funny, Moravagine bears comparison with Naked Lunch, except that it is more entertaining to read. Heir to an immense fortune, 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 star struck psychiatrist (the narrator of the book) who foresees a companionship in crime, Moravagine travels from Moscow to San Antonio to deepest Amazonia, engaged in schemes as, among other things, a bomb maker, businessman, gold prospector, and pilot. The two friends return to Europe just in time for World War I, when "the whole world was doing a Moravagine."

ISBN:

1590170636

OCLC:

55887400