3. He moved first to Florence where
he studies oriental languages:
Chinese and Japanese.
4. He was near all of the
avantgarde: art criticism, literary
aesthetics, music and film.
He was a journalist, reporter,
writer and philosopher.
5. He always considered him to be
neither French or Italian, but
“mediterranean” and “latin”, a son of
south that forced him to emigrate, to
look elsewhere for the fulfilment
(implementation) of his cultural
dreams.
6. Culture’s proper role was
the union of peoples even
those with the most
different ideologies;
Canudo wanted to banish
war and violence.
