Moravagine

Blaise Cendrars

Translated by Alan Brown earliest edition we have, 1968 New York Review Books, 2004 paperback 229 pages

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"At once truly appalling and appallingly funny, Blaise Cendrars's Moravagine bears comparison with Naked Lunch except that it's a lot more entertaining to read. Heir to an immense aristocratic fortune, mental and physical mutant Moravagine is a monster, a man in pursuit of a theorem that will justify his every desire. Released from a hospital for the criminally insane by his starstruck psychiatrist (the narrator of t...

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Alan Brown 1 printing we hold · 2004 · New York Review Books

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Moravagine paperback · 2004 · New York Review Books · 229 pages · 9781590170632
Moravagine edition · 1994 · Penguin · 224 pages
Moravagine paperback · 1990 · Blast Books · 9780922233045
Moravagine paperback · 1973 · Le livre de poche · 9780785930440
Moravagine edition · 1970 · Penguin Books · 209 pages
Moravagine edition · 1968 · Owen · 236 pages

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