Gold (Romance)

Gold

Gold. The marvellous history of the general Johann August Suter is a novel of Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), published at Grasset in 1925. It is the first novel published by its author, hitherto known for his poems ( Easter in New York , the Prose of Trans-Siberian and the small Jeanne de France ) and its collaborations with the painters in the mediums of avant-garde. Written in a few weeks with the return of the first voyage of Cendrars to Brazil, Gold was immediately a great success which was never contradicted. It marks a turning in the work of its author who " takes congé" poem to become throughout the Twenties a novelist of the heroic adventure.

Gold is a fictionalized life of the general Suter , a Swiss adventurer of origin, which made fortune in California thanks to agriculture. It repurchased the area with the Mexico and made gift with the young people the United States of it. But it was ruined by the gold discovery on its territory in 1848 and by the great gold rush which was followed from there.

Editions

Grasset, 1925.
Grasset, 1947, edition re-examined and corrected by the author.
Gallimard, coll " Folio" , 1973.
Denoël, coll " All around aujourd' hui" , volume 2,2001. Follow-up of Rum and the Money . Edition presented and with accompanying notes by Claude Leroy.

Critical studies

Claude Leroy, Gold of Blaise Cendrars , Paris, Gallimard, coll " Foliothèque" , 1991.
Michele Lathe, Blaise Cendrars. The desire of the novel (1920-1930) , Paris, Champion, 1999.

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