Blaise Cendrars ecrivain proteiforme

This book's aim is to provide a critical bird's eye view of Blaise Cendrar's oeuvre, through readings which sample its interdisciplinary diversity, as indicated by the protean metaphor of the title. Colvile's six essays on the Franco-Swiss literal and literary vagabond have been organized under the headings of Cendrar's three main genres: poetry, fiction and journalism. The heterogeneous assemblage of verse and prose texts analyzed here with a variety of theoretical approaches, should convey and reflect Cendrars' eccentricity and intellectual independence, his highly experimental writing techniques often influenced by the plastic arts, as well as his posthumous avoidance of the Canon.Ce livre a pour but de donner un panorama selectif de l' uvre cendrarsienne, a travers des lectures qui en soulignent la diversite, d'ou la metaphore proteenne du titre. Les six essais de Georgiana Colvile sur le bourlingueur franco-helvetique, s'organisent selon les trois genres principaux pratiques par Cendrars: poesie, fiction et reportage. Le choix heterogene des textes en vers et en prose analyses ici, ainsi que la variete des methodes utilisees, devraient relever et refleter l'excentricite et l'independance intellectuelles de Cendrars, ses techniques experimentales d'ecrivain influence par les arts plastiques et la persistance posthume de sa marginalite.