As fotografias verbais de Blaise Cendrars

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the Documentaires by Blaise Cendrars, in order to reflect how the text promoted a re-creation of the novel Le Misterieux Docteur Cornélius by Gustave Le Rouge, inserting excerpts from Au Congo Belge by Maurice Calmeyn. The poet used the process called "verbal photographs", which approached the cinematographic montage and photography. The Documentaires are part of the avant-garde design by Cendrars, who always sought different ways to innovate the genre and situate it in the modern world of the early twentieth century. Thus, we will contextualize the theoretical principles that governed the avant-garde movements in general and in the poetic work of Blaise Cendrars. Later, we will do an analysis of Documentaires, inserting the text into the aesthetic project of the Franco-Swiss poet and observing how the writer does a work of re-creation of other texts starting from studies of intertextuality.