Ụlọ akwụkwọ Morgan & Museum, New York
26 Mee - 24 Septemba 2023
Frédéric-Louis Sauser's mbụ nnukwu uri bụ mwụfu aha ya. Amụrụ na 1887 na Switzerland, ọ hapụrụ ụlọ mgbe ọ dị afọ iri na ụma, na-aga Saint Petersburg na New York City, ebe o mere onwe ya baptizim Blaise Cendrars, egwuregwu na French maka 'ember' (ọkụ) na 'ash' (uyi). Nchikota, ode okwu abuo ka enwere ike na amughari, ga-egosi oke kwesiri ekwesi. Dị ka nkọwa zuru ezu na ihe ngosi na nso nso a na The Morgan Library & Museum, 'Blaise
Cendrars (1887–1961): Abụ bụ ihe niile', Cendrars mere ọrụ nke ịma aka oke oke nke okwu edere. Ọ bụrụ na mmanụ ụgbọala nwere ike ịgba ọkụ, gịnị kpatara na ọ bụghị ibe? Maka Cendrars, uri ọ bụla nwere ikike ịgafe ederede, eserese ma ọ bụ ihe nkiri ọ bụla na-ewepụ ohere nke ịghọ uri pụtara ìhè.
Sheelagh Bevan chepụtara ya, 'Poetry bụ Ihe niile' bụ ihe ngosi izizi lekwasịrị anya na Cendrars na US wee nye ndị America na-ege ntị okwu mmeghe nye ụdịdị a amachaghị ama nke transatlantic modernism. N'agbanyeghị na ọ jụrụ ịbụ onye mmekọ ọ bụla na mmegharị ma ọ bụ 'ism',
Cendrars gbara okirikiri isi avant-garde nke mmalite 1900s, na-eme enyi dịka ndị uri Guillaume Apollinaire na Jean Cocteau, na onye na-ese ihe Fernand Léger. Ihe ngosi a na-abịa na ikiri ụkwụ nke akụkọ akụkọ Bekee nke 2022 nke Cendrars ma bụrụ akụkụ nke otu agụmakwụkwọ na-eto eto nke na-achọ ime ka ndị na-ege ntị Anglophone nweta uri ya. Nke a bụ ọrụ dị mkpa, ebe ọ bụ na ihe ngosi ahụ mere ka o doo anya, oeuvre Cendrars bụ akụkụ dị oke mkpa nke nka na akụkọ edemede ọgbara ọhụrụ.
Otu n'ime iberibe Cendrars kachasị mkpa, uri dị egwu, ihe atụ, La Prose du Transsibérien et de la petite Jehanne de France (The Prose of the Trans-Siberian and of Little Jeanne of France), emebere ya na mmekorita ya na Sonia Delaunay-Terk ma bụrụ ihe atụ mara mma nke Simultanism, okwu Delaunay-Terk nyere nnwale ngwa anya ya na agba dị iche na agba. Edere ya na 1913, mgbe Cendrars rere New York maka Paris, ọ bụ 'akwụkwọ otu oge' nke mbụ. Ebipụtara ya n'otu mpempe akwụkwọ kwụ ọtọ dị ogologo, ọ na-esonye na nkọwa nke njem nrịanrịa nke na-abịa n'etiti Moscow, North Pole na Paris, nke Delaunay-Terk dere, nke e bu n'obi tinye mmegharị n'amaokwu ndị ahụ. Ọbụlagodi n'azụ vitrine iko na Morgan, stanzas jagged na-agbaji wee gbapụta. Mmetụta ya dị ka ịnwa ịgụ uri n'elu ebe a na-agba egwu na-egbuke egbuke, site n'oké ikuku nke igwe foogu.
N'oge na-adịghị mgbe e bipụtara La Prose du Transsibérien, Agha Ụwa Mbụ dara. N'ịbụ onye na-arụ ọrụ na mba ọ nabatara, Cendrars gara n'ihu n'Ebe Ọdịda Anyanwụ iji wepụta onwe ya na Òtù Na-ahụ Maka Mba Ọzọ nke France. Ọ laghachiri na Paris na 1915 obere aka nri ya, ihe ọghọm n'ọgbọ agha nke mere ka ọ malite iji aka ekpe ya malite ide ihe. Dị ka e depụtara na ngalaba akpọrọ 'The Poetics of War', mfu ahụ mere ka ọtụtụ ntụgharị uche na-akpasu iwe na mkparị ọgụ nke ga-eme ka ihe ngosi nke Léger na onye na-ese ihe Cubist Mexico Ángel Zárraga mara. N'ihe atụ oji na ocha maka mpịakọta Cendrars nke 1917, Gbanwee aujourd'hui ('Taa dị ukwuu'), Zárraga gosipụtara nwoke prosthetic, nke e ji nlezianya kpụchapụta ọnụ na ígwè na osisi. N'ịbụ onye e ji nkuchi jide ya, ọ bụ ihe na-emetụ n'ahụ nke enweghị ike nke ọtụtụ ndị agha agha ukwu ahụ nwetara.
Ọ bụ ezie na ncheta agha ahụ na-egbu mgbu, ọ pụghị igbochi mmasị Cendrars ma ọ bụ mmasị maka njem. Dị ka ihe ndị ọzọ 'Poetry bụ Ihe niile' nyochara, ọ nọrọ na 1920 na 30s na-anwale n'ofe nka: ya na Cocteau na onye na-ede egwú Erik Satie na-arụ ọrụ iji kwalite arụmọrụ nnwale, mere njem gafee Brazil na Tarsila do Amaral, onye nyere ihe osise maka ya. 1924 Feuilles de ụzọ ('Ihe ndetu njem'), wee banye n'ime ihe nkiri na nka eserese. Onye nwere nchekwube nkà na ụzụ n'obi, Cendrars kwenyere na fim na mgbasa ozi a ma ama na-asụ n'asụsụ zuru ụwa ọnụ nke na-anọchite anya njedebe nke okwu uri na-esote ya, ya mere o ji okwu ya nye nkọwa maka onye nduzi Abel Gance, onye na-egbuke egbuke nke ihe nkiri French na-agbachi nkịtị, na akwụkwọ mmado. nke AM Cassandre, onye na-ahụ maka ịdepụta akara ngosi Dubonnet aperitifs.
"N'obodo ọ bụla dị n'ụwa, igwe mmadụ ndị na-apụ apụ n'ebe a na-eme ihe nkiri ... na-etipịa ụlọ eze, ụlọ mkpọrọ," Cendrars na-atụgharị uche, na ntụgharị ume nke 1917-21 na ike nke mgbasa ozi na ndọrọ ndọrọ ọchịchị. Ma ọ bụrụ na a tụrụ ya n’ihuenyo ma ọ bụ mado ya n’ụlọ, e ebipụta ya na ink ma ọ bụ detuo ya na pensụl, nke nwere okwu, ma ọ bụ ihe onyonyo, ma ọ bụ ha abụọ, uri ọ bụla nwere ike ịbụ ite ntụ ntụ.
Hannah Stamler bụ onye edemede na onye nyocha PhD na French History na Interdisciplinary Humanities na Mahadum Princeton.
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