One of the great figures of modern French literature.
Over the years, a number of Cendrars\' works were translated into English--early.
As a young man he reached the Orient across Russia, and "The Transsiberian," one of his finest long poems is included in this volume.
Swiss-born in 1887, but French to the core in spirit, Cendrars roamed the world for many years, a restless seeker who made life an adventure and his novels and poems the record of a never-satisfied appetite for human experience.
One of the great figures of modern French literature