Publisher: Peter Owen Publishers
Authors: Blaise Cendrars Nina Rootes
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Summary: What would you do with true wealth?
Dan Yack is a lavish exercise in inheritance by the extremely entertaining author Blaise Cendrars. Cendrars, one alias of Frederic Sauser, could easily be Yack. He is an ebullient traveller whose life can hardly be extricated from his fiction. If you've ever read anything written about him, you might have some idea of the difficulty biographers face in dealing with this subject.
Dan Yack is the well funded son of a shipping magnate, who decides to take his millions to Russia and spend his days drinking and spending. While there, he wakes up under a table where three artists (a painter, a composer, and a sculpter) are lamenting over the sad state of he arts and how difficult it is to make money as an artist. He climbs out from under the table, where he had been inspecting their shoes, to right the ineffable wrongs that have been done to these gentlemen. After handing each of them a blank check, Yack urges them to meet in London in 6 months to depart for Antarctica, where they will spend a season gathering inspiration. The choice is theirs.
What follows is the tale of the three artists, Yack, and his dog going insane in the arctic winter. For anyone who has ever wondered why the rich never do anything truly entertaining with their money, for all the people who have pondered how big a plum pudding can get, and for all those who have dreamed of picking a place to live by firing a pistol at a globe, you have Dan Yack.
Summary: From love to action and contemplation
(Sorry for my poor english...)
If you liked the marvelous Moravagine, Dan Yack could be considerated in a way as is soft counterpart. When a group of depraved artits decide to follow an idle billionnaire to spend a winter near the south pole, anything can happen. And, of course, as we are in the Blaise Cendrars world, it happens in a brutal, hallucinating but touching way. Dan Yack plays with life like a gambler who would play russian roulette with a gun loaded with five bullets.
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