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Such music is not only a new art form but a new reason for living.

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Writing is to descend like a miner to the depths of the mine with a lamp on your forehead, a light whose dubious brightness falsifies everything, whose wick is in permanent danger of explosion, whose blinking illumination in the coal dust exhausts and corrodes your eyes.

Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars

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Born: September 1, 1887

Died: January 21, 1961 (aged 73)

Bio: Frédéric-Louis Sauser, better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.

Known for:

Moravagine: (*) (1926)
La Main coupée (1946)
To the end of the world
Anthologie Negre (1947)

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