Blaise Cendrars Une guerre de trente ans

Cendrars was not called up. Yet he enlisted. The man with the cut-off hand carried the stigmata of his wounds. From 1916 to 1946, Cendrars explored, with diverse results, what the war had done to him. When to talk and what to say? Poetry, testimonial, fiction succeeded each other and mixed together in pain, provocation, and polemic during the thirty years in which the discourse on war changed for him and his readers.