L'Homme foudroyé
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L'Homme foudroyé (1945, Eng: The Astonished Man) is Francophone novel by Swiss writer Blaise Cendrars.
It is a memoir, which combined travel fantasies with episodes from his life. The story is set in World War I, another episode with gypsies in a travelling theatre, and yet another in a South American swamp.
From Peter Owen, its current publisher:
- "THE ASTONISHED MAN is the extraordinary and much-requested first volume of Cendrars's autobiography. After chronicling the author's exploits in the Foreign Legion (including the loss of his arm), the narrative sets off across continents. From Africa to South America, Cendrars encounters everyone from Gallic gipsies to Piquita, the Mexican millionairess. And to all his encounters he brings the vitality, savage humour and vivid observation that characterize his dazzling writing. "
Excerpt:
- "I am haunted by no phantoms. It is rather that the ashes I stir up contain the crystallization that hold the image (reduced or synthetic) of the living and impure beings that they constituted before the intervention of the fire. If life has a meaning, this image (from the beyond?) has perhaps some significance. That is what I should like to know. And it is why I write."
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