Description
A narrator with a taste for the bizarre becomes entangled with Moravagine, a brilliant, monstrous alter ego whose release from a psychiatric asylum sparks a wild, globe-spanning partnership in crime. Ordered by a shadowy organization, the pair hurtle from Moscow to Europe and onward to the Americas, where revolution becomes a pretext for murder, fraud, and the ruthless remaking of social values. Blending dark comedy with fever-dream momentum, the novel turns on themes of transgression, ideology as performance, and the unsettling boundary between “science,” desire, and violence. In Blaise Cendrars’s audacious, cinematic style—equal parts satire and underground adventure—every stop on the map feels like a new experiment in what a human being can justify, and how far a story can go before it breaks.
Available Editions
paperback
Penguin Books
Published Jan 1, 1970
209 pages
ISBN: 9780140039658
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Details
First Published
1926
Language
fra
Content Warnings
Content and trigger warnings for Moravagine by Blaise Cendrars.