This was a discovery. French Modernist, he writes, well, brilliantly, genius even. Rhythm, style, cadence, pacing, the plot, characters, situations, the balance of narrative, philosophizing, an author I'd seen referred to by Henry Miller (and you can see his influence), as well as influencing Modigliani, (Link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Portrait_of_Blaise_Cendrars), Picasso, Chagall and others. Discovering him is a little like discovering Celine - and - fortunately for me, he has quite a number of other books in translation.
Unfortunately they're pretty rare and often very expensive.
I'll get to them.
The cover art - a Penguin Paperback with Thomas Hafner's "Lucifer" (an AI Hallucination before AI, actually conceived and painted by the artist) - this is the original "Fight Club", "Apocalypse Now", I could go on.
And his writing - trying to discern what is factual - within his experience, vs fiction - what he's making up - is in points night on impossible, he paints perfect, vivid strokes, in the general and then perfectly again in the specific, make it impossible to differentiate...
An absolutely brilliant author but poorly represented in English Translation.
5/5 Stars.