Talk:Blaise Cendrars

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Untitled[edit]

I'm working on this extensively, mostly translating over from the very thorough French entry. The French entry doesn't note its sources although it has a long reference list. Finding sources is my next priority for this page. 24.20.124.130 (talk) 00:32, 18 June 2008 (UTC)[reply]

Bourlinguer is really my favorite Cendrars book, one he wrote when at age 61-62. Does anyone have the real publishing date on it?

The first edition recorded in the catalogue of the Swiss National Library (which collects all his works since he was born Swiss and preserves the largest set of his manuscripts) is: Paris : Ed. Denoël (19, rue Amédie), 1948. - 408 p. ; 8°. Clpda (talk) 22:13, 15 July 2008 (UTC)[reply]

The claim that he's the first modernist poet need attribution, because most people would probably consider Baudelaire the first. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 82.238.173.143 (talk) 15:44, 10 October 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Inconsistency[edit]

The Modigliani painting in the sidebar is dated 1917, but in the article it is written that Modigliani painted Cendrars in 1918. I cannot easily find which date is correct. 206.174.74.89 (talk) 08:54, 29 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

Pléiades[edit]

Blaise Cendrars has now received the accolade of being published in a boxed edition in the Bibliothèque des Pléiades. For an extensive discussion of Blaise Cendrars see Times Literary Supplement 24 September 2014 Times Literary Supplement - Blaise Cendrars Everybody got to be somewhere! (talk) 12:57, 2 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Loss of Arm[edit]

Why isn't there anything, other than in the slug line of the picture, telling how he lost his arm?William (The Bill) Blackstone (talk) 19:37, 6 December 2014 (UTC)[reply]

Poor literature review[edit]

Why does this article not really talk much about his most famous and influential works? For example, I don't understand how you can have an article on Blaise Cendrars without any mention of Moravagine. That's just insane. It would be like having an article on Dickens that makes no mention of Huckleberry Finn or an article on Ray Bradbury with no mention of Fahrenheit 451. Just insane. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 142.105.162.127 (talk) 04:30, 21 June 2015 (UTC)[reply]

Please relate Dickens to Huckleberry Finn.96.235.173.81 (talk) 19:09, 4 January 2021 (UTC)Johnny Friendly[reply]

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Photos[edit]

The photos currently on this page don't really do justice to him. A simple Google search will show this. Strangely, his appearance seems to have changed a lot over the years - going from a sensitive aesthete to a tough guy. But it seems like the tough guy look was the one that stuck. -Wwallacee (talk) 00:06, 21 September 2017 (UTC)[reply]