The Twilight Years : Paris in the 1930s
by William Wiser
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"Despite the stock market crash of 1929, Paris lost none of its magical allure for artists and expatriates in the 1930s. Jazz orchestrated Parisian nights, surrealism flourished, haute couture reinvented itself. James Joyce redefined modern literature with Finnegans Wake and at her cabaret Josephine Baker redefined the derriere. At salons and galleries, palaces and cafes, Henry Miller, Helena Rubinstein, Anais Nin, Coco Chanel, Salvador Dali, Elsa Schiaparelli, T. S. Eliot, and Katherine show more Anne Porter joined illustrious exiles of the twenties like Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach, Pablo Picasso, Janet Flanner, and Man Ray." "The Twilight Years tells their story, and the city's. It chronicles the decade that continued to foster the brilliant creative revolution of the expatriate era - an era that ended with perhaps the grimmest event in modern French history: the fall of Paris and the Nazi occupation in 1940."--BOOK JACKET. show lessTags
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Somewhat interesting book on the Paris of the 1930s, though if you've read biographies of Ivar Krueger, or have read William L. Shirer, a lot of this will be familiar, which tends to take from the book. And what is left is a bit of nostalgie de la boue for some of the squalid lives of some of the writers.
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- Important places
- The Left Bank; Paris, France
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- Genres
- History, Nonfiction, General Nonfiction, Biography & Memoir, Literature Studies and Criticism
- DDC/MDS
- 944.3610815 — History & geography History of Europe France and Monaco Champagne; Ile de France; Lorraine Île-de-France Paris
- LCC
- DC715 .W63 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania France – Andorra – Monaco History of France Local history and description Paris
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- (3.95)
- Languages
- English, Greek
- Media
- Paper
- ISBNs
- 4
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