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Paris at the turn of the twentieth century had become the cultural capital of the world. Artists and writers came to contribute to flourishing avant-garde movements, as the Left Bank became a new centre of creativity. It drew tourists and travellers, but also many exiled from their home countries or escaping political persecution, and those seeking freedom from social constraints.
The romantic myth of Paris persists, but Marie-José Gransard explores the darker side of the City of Light. She brings her subjects to life by describing where and how they lived, what they wrote and what was written about them, through a wide-ranging literary legacy of diaries, memoirs, letters, poetry, theatre, cinema and fiction. In Twentieth-Century Paris: a Literary Guide for Travellers (1900-1950) both the visitor and the armchair traveller alike will find familiar names, from Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell to Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, and they will encounter unfairly forgotten or neglected writers, artists and musicians; famous and less well-known Russians, and thinkers from as far as the Caribbean and Latin America.
Table of Contents
Author's Note
Map of Arrondissements
Acknowledgements
1 Introduction
2 Gay Paree
3 Down and Out
4 City of Exiles
5 Flappers and Amazons
6 The Lost Generation
7 Patrons and Artists
8 Conclusion
French Expressions
Haunts and Locations
Chronology
Further Reading
Index
Product details
| Published | 15 Sep 2020 |
|---|---|
| Format | Hardback |
| Edition | 1st |
| Extent | 352 |
| ISBN | 9780755601752 |
| Imprint | Tauris Parke |
| Dimensions | 198 x 129 mm |
| Series | Literary Guides for Travellers |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing |
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