Summary
Blaise Cendrars: Prose about the Trans-Siberian Railway and Little Jean of France
In his very turbulent life, he traveled around the world for years, and his best books of poetry came from these travels. At the age of seventeen, he ran away from home to Petrograd, and in the midst of the Japanese-Russian war, he embarked on a long and dangerous journey on the Trans-Siberian railway. He would publish a poem about this trip ten years later, in 1913. The book was not flipped, but unfolded like an accordion, with different fonts and letter sizes. The entire book was painted by Sonja Delonej and each copy, when unfolded, was two meters long. Prose about the Trans-Siberian Railway and Little Jean of France is the first book combined with abstract art and the first book that functions as a multimedia object.
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