Christmas at the Four Corners of the Earth (American Readers Series) - Hardcover

Cendrars, Blaise

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1880238160 ISBN 13: 9781880238165

Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd., 1994

Synopsis

The twelve trans-realist prose sketches in Christmas at the Four Corners of the Earth take the reader to Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Rotterdam, China, New Mexico, New Zealand, the Ardennes Forest, and the south Atlantic ocean.Working together they are antithesis to sentimental Christmas stories.

About this title

From the Back Cover:

The 12 trans-realist prose sketches in Christmas At The Four Corners of The Earth take the reader to Paris, Rio de Janeiro, Bahia, Rotterdam, China, New Mexico, New Zealand, the Ardennes Forest, and the south Atlantic ocean. We meet a one-armed man playing the piano in a small bungalow under the Southern Cross, a Countess who survives the sinking of a transatlantic steamer and artists who drink and sing through Christmas eve and day. These sketches - working together - are antitheses to traditional and perhaps sentimental Christmas stories. These are not tales of the star, the shepherds and the manger, but of common people confronted by all the beauty, terror, doubt and confusion of the 20th century. What remains? Cendrars's profound vision and a steadfast belief that the incarnation of the spirit does, indeed, endure.

Language Notes:

Text: English (translation)
Original Language: French

About this edition

• Publisher: BOA Editions Ltd.
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 1880238160
• ISBN 13: 9781880238165
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 60
• Illustrator: Walker Denzil