THE END OF THE WORLD

Blaise Cendrars

Blaise Cendrars' "The End of the World as filmed by the Angel N.D." is an artist's book created in collaboration with Fernand Léger. And that is what the book describes: the Angel of Notre Dame shows the demise of the world in time lapse, and then towards the end, describes the angel playing the film in reverse. Leger's Tubist illustrations with their circus poster colours and typographic games complement the strangeness of the prose. First English translation.