by Blaise Cendrars · Gallimard Education · tapa blanda · ISBN 9782070363315
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«L'or» is the historical novel by Blaise Cendrars, published by Gallimard Education in paperback (224 pages, in French).
Novel based on the life of General Johann August Suter, a Swiss man persecuted in Europe who emigrates to the United States and arrives in New York in 1834. After crossing the country, he settles in California and amasses a fortune, but the discovery of gold on his lands ruins him. A story of ambition and greed about the dark side of the American dream.
Originally published in 1925, this French edition is number 331 in the Folio collection and dates from 1973.
For readers of historical fiction and lovers of twentieth-century French literary classics.
Frédéric-Louis Sauser, better known as Blaise Cendrars, was a Swiss-born novelist and poet who became a naturalized French citizen in 1916. He was a writer of considerable influence in the European modernist movement.
