... Abstract The life and works of Blaise Cendrars (1887–1961), one of the greatest French literary authors of the 20th century, were profoundly influenced by neurology. Having been wounded in the Great War in 1915, his right forearm was amputated, and he very quickly began to suffer from stump...

... Abstract The literary work of Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), né Frédéric Sauser, one of the major French-speaking authors of the 20th century, is imbued with references to neuropsychiatry. This theme is a constant presence in his writing as a result of his involvement of the First World War...

...References References 1. Tatu L: The missing hands of Blaise Cendrars. (eds) Bogousslavsky J, Hennerici MG, Bäzner H, Bassetti C: Neurological Disorders in Famous Artists - Part 3. Front Neurol Neurosci Basel, Karger, 2010;27:143-159 2. Hugues R: Sauser avant Cendrars. Revue...

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...: André Breton (1896-1966), Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) and Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961). The deep source of the surrealist movement can indeed be found in André Breton's involvement as an auxiliary physician with critical interest in neuropsychiatry, which caused him to discover automatic writing...

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... Abstract Many artists were involved in the First World War. Some of them were mobilized, like millions of soldiers, others enlisted to fight on the battlefield. The stories of writers who returned neurologically wounded from the war, such as Guillaume Apollinaire (1880-1918) or Blaise Cendrars...

... writer Jean Giono (1895-1970), the naturalist Maurice Genevoix (1890-1980), who suffered himself from a section of the left median and ulnar nerves, or the British poet Siegfried Sassoon (1886-1967). War hysteria and pathological fear have been described, on several occasions, by Blaise Cendrars (1887...

.... Saint Clément de Rivière, Fata Morgana, 1979. 5. Staub F, Bogousslavsky J, Maeder P, Maeder-Ingvar M, Fornari E, Ghika J, et al: Intentional motor phantom limb syndrome. Neurology 2006;67:2140-2146. 6. Tatu L, Bogousslavsky J, Boller F: Phantom limbs in artists: the lost limbs of Blaise Cendrars...

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... a phantom limb phenomenon would have evolved if Rimbaud had survived. However, our own work on famous creators, such as the poet Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961) and the pianist Paul Wittgenstein (1887-1961), who both lost an arm during the First World War [Tatu, 2010; Tatu et al., 2014], suggests...

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... ]. Phantom limbs were the cause of trouble for thousands of First World War amputees. Some artists involved in this war described this condition, such as the Swiss writer Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961) whose right arm was amputated in 1915. He peppered his literary work and personal correspondence...

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... mad myself' [ 3 ]. Other witnesses, like the voluntarily enlisted novelist Blaise Cendrars (1887-1961), observed the disturbances that were progressively taking hold of the men in his squad and in himself: ‘I do not condemn them. Indeed, ultimately, what pushed me to patrol alone? A taste for risk...