Voodoo killers, Bank Robbers & Sewermen: True tales from the life and times of Blaise Cendrars, the world’s greatest vagabond
features seven Cendrars works:
The Sewerman of London
: a tale of a secret passage leading to the Bank of England, gleaned from a fellow legionnaire while trapped in the trenches of the Great War;
River of Blood (J’ai saigné)
: the 1st-hand narrative of the killing fields of Champagne, and the day in 1916 he lost his writing hand to a German machine-gunner;
Fébronio
: Cendrars’ chilling and compelling interview with Brazil’s most infamous serial voodoo killer;
The Diamond Circle:
the tale of the discovery of a diamond with a curse;
Hip-flask of blood (Bidon de sang)
: translation by Cendrars of an unpublished spaghetti-western novel by the bank robber lawyer Al Jennings;
Le Saint Inconnu (The Anonymous Saint)
;
Anecdotique
: On Saint-Exupéry.