by Blaise Cendrars · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788474101669
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This book tells the biography of General Sutter, an adventurer from Basel (Switzerland), who made his fortune in California through agriculture in the first half of the 19th century. He bought the region from Mexico and established a true agricultural industry. He was on his way to becoming the richest man in the world, but was ruined by the discovery of gold on his land in 1848 and by the great gold rush that followed. Thousands of people rushed to General Sutter's territory, devastating everything he had put so much energy into building. Tired and dejected by so much injustice, he sank into a passive melancholy until his family reappeared. He decided to regain control and asked the thousands of prospectors exploiting his gold-filled territory to leave, but it didn't help and he died sadly.
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.
