Blaise Cendrars, Sonia Delaunay-Terk: La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France (1913) [FR, EN]

22 April 2015, dusan

La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France [Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jehanne of France] is a collaborative artists’ book by Blaise Cendrars and Sonia Delaunay-Terk. It features a poem by Cendrars about a journey through Russia on the Trans-Siberian Express in 1905, during the first Russian Revolution, interlaced with an almost-abstract pochoir print by Delaunay-Terk. The work, published in 1913, is considered a milestone in the evolution of artist’s books as well as modernist poetry and abstract art.” (Wikipedia)

Interview with Cedrars (Michel Manoll, trans. William Brandon, 1950/1966, EN)

Publisher Éditions des Hommes Nouveaux, 1913
200 x 36 cm; folded to 10 x 18 cm
via Beinecke Rare Book & Manuscript Library, MT Marcelo Gutman

View online, Portions in higher resolution (at Beinecke)
Version at British Library
PDF (2 MB)
JPG (2 MB)
MP3 (read by Vicky Messica, c1985, 54 MB, via continuo)

English translations
by Donald Wellman
by Ekaterina Likhtik


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