Blaise Cendrars

Japanese: サンドラール - さんどらーる(英語表記)Blaise Cendrars
Blaise Cendrars

Swiss-born French poet and novelist. His real name was Frédéric Sauser. He left his hometown at the age of 15 for Russia, and then travelled to Siberia, China, Mongolia and Persia, changing jobs in various ways before returning to the United States in 1912, where he wrote the pioneering modern poem "Easter in New York". During World War I, he was a Swiss citizen and enlisted in the Foreign Legion, where he was wounded and lost his right arm. After the war, he established avant-garde techniques such as the abolition of punctuation and the use of simultaneous speech in works such as "19 Elastic Poems" (1919), a collection of rhythmic poems that seem to be slammed with one hand. His novels The Severed Hand (1946) and The Division of Heaven (1949) are semi-mythical autobiographies based on the recollections of this adventurous poet, while Kodak (1924) and Hollywood (1936) are reportages that could be called photographic records of the spirit of the times, and La d'Ol (1925), Morabasine (1926), and Take Me to the Ends of the Earth (1956) are stories of intense destructive power. In 1961 he received the Grand Prix de Literature de Paris.

[Motoyoshi Sone]

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Japanese:

スイス出身のフランスの詩人、小説家。本名フレデリック・ソゼールFrédéric Sauser。15歳で故郷を出てロシアへ行き、その後シベリア、中国、モンゴル、ペルシアを回り、多くの職業を転々として帰国。1912年、渡米して先駆的近代詩『ニューヨークの復活祭』を書く。第一次世界大戦に際しスイス国籍の彼は外人部隊に入隊して従軍、負傷して右腕を失う。戦後、片手で叩(たた)きつけるような律動の詩集『弾性詩19編』(1919)などで、句読点の廃止や同時話法の使用など前衛的な手法を樹立した。小説『切られた手』(1946)、『天の区分』(1949)はこの冒険詩人の回想を芯(しん)に据えたなかば神話的な自伝であり、『コダック』(1924)、『ハリウッド』(1936)は時代精神の記録写真ともいうべきルポルタージュであり、『黄金』(1925)、『モラバジーン』(1926)、『世界の果てにつれていって』(1956)は強烈な破壊力をもつ物語である。1961年パリ市文学大賞を受けた。

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