A century ago Blaise Cendrars’ The prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France was published. It was a journey around the world and in the mind. <br />Blaise Cendrars has now found his place among the literary greats after his works have been included in France’s prestigious Pléiade library collection. Born Frédéric-Louis Sauser in the western Swiss town of La Chaux-de-Fonds in 1887, Cendrars became restless at the age of 17. He said that his choice for going East was the result of a throw of the dice; he might just as well have gone West. He moved to Russia’s far east, to Vladivostok. Then he travelled around a lot to the most improbable corners of the Earth – and he wrote a lot. He died in Paris in 1961. What’s left are his books, his photographs… and his voice.
