Dan Yack (Peter Owen Modern Classic)
This bawdy and peculiar adventure story has been newly translated and published here for the first time to honor Cendrars's centenary. Influential surrealist Cendrars wrote novels, poems, and reports of his wide travels throughout the first half of this century, and like him Dan Yack is an assertive and curious wanderer; the novel details his trip around the world via Antartica. The translator wisely appends a separate story of Yack's departure from Antarctica rather than leaving him, as the novel seems to do, in frozen limbo. Few libraries need acquire this slight work now, but students of comparative literature may well want to consult the excellent translation. Francisca Goldsmith, Golden Gate Univ. Lib., San FranciscoCopyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.