Abstract: Compared with the importance of painting for Cendrars, the role of music remains obscured in his poetry. However, the Prose du Transsibérien is “dedicated to musicians,” and a strange dissonance appears when the poet’s voice falls silent. A modern music, metallic and mechanical, emerges from the landscape. The strings of the lyre are supplanted by pistons, cranes, motors, until we hear the clatter of the typewriter.
