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La Fin du Monde filmée par l'Ange N.-D.

1919
Fernand Léger (French, 1881–1955) Written by Blaise Cendrars (Swiss (active France), 1887–1961) Published by Éditions de la Sirène, Paris
This book is one of Léger’s collaborations with poet Blaise Cendrars (Swiss (active France), 1887 - 1961). It is an example of a “cine-poem,” a hybrid of poem and screenplay that flourished as a novel literary genre in the 1920s. Cendrars’s narrative recounts the end of the world as it is caught on camera by a stone angel atop Notre-Dame Cathedral in Paris. Léger’s illustrations unfold in sequence as the pages of the book are turned, each numbered like scenes in a film script.

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