- Gebundene Ausgabe: 256 Seiten
- Verlag: HarperCollins Publishers Ltd (24. September 1987)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0044400675
- ISBN-13: 978-0044400677
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 23,6 x 15,7 x 3 cm
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Described by its author as "a collage of Left-Bank expatriate life as it was experienced by the Hemingway generation," this work benefits from Carpenter's wealth of rich memoir material, engaging style, and acute eye for lively anecdote. He also accepts the stereotype of the Lost Generation's decade-long party chiefly remarkable for the fun it afforded the participants and subsequent myths of artistic brilliance. This is an easy thesis to advance as gossip-journalism, essentially the book's intellectual locus. A more rigorous artistic and historical perspective would shred Carpenter's thesis to tinsel, but it would also deny the book its genuine, though superficial, charm. Earl Rovit, City Coll. , CUNY
Copyright 1987 Reed Business Information, Inc. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Literary stars just beginning to shine
15. Juli 2002
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Gertrude Stein called them the "Lost Generation," this motley amalgamation of talented and not-so-talented would-be (in the early 1920s) writers and expatriates. Stein was one, Natalie Clifford Barney, Sylvia Beach were others - all profiled in GENIUSES TOGETHER.
The main narrative takes place between 1921 and 1928, the dates chosen because they encompass the years Hemingway and his associates invaded Montparnasse and created what Noel Coward called "a marvelous party."
It's quite a story, this picture of the romantic years (did they really look that way at the time?) of to-be literary giants: Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Joyce, Pound. They shared money, books, lovers, living quarters. They careened from love to scandal and back again. They were individualists, scoundrels, idealists, one and all.
Christmas 1931: Sylvia Beach (of the Shakespeare and Company bookstore on the Left Bank) noticed a young man, whom she described as "a tall, dark young fellow with a small mustache" glancing through the magazines. She began to talk to him, discovered that he had no money for a lender's card, so she offered him a card, saying he could pay the deposit when he liked.
"It was only now that she discovered that he had a letter of introduction to her from Sherwood Anderson, who was back in Chicago. He had been to shy to present it. `I am writing this,' said the letter,' to make you acquainted with my friend Ernest Hemingway...an American writer instinctively in touch with everything worthwhile going on here and I know you will find both Mr. and Mrs. Hemingway delightful people to know.'"
Author Humphrey Carter is a British writer who has written biographies of W.H. Auden, J.R.R. Tolkien, and C.S. Lewis. He is a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature and recipient of the E.M. Forster Award.
I loved this book. I'll read it again soon. It's intelligent, sympathetic, scholarly and imminently readable. It's a thoroughly engaging examination of a time, a community and a world that had tremendous impact on literary fashion. I give it the highest recommendation - it's delightful.
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A folksy social history...very readable
27. Januar 2005
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This is not a dry 'History' book chocked full of facts and dates and footnotes, it is a very readable and enjoyable book about certain people (American Literati) at a certain place (Paris and surrounding area) at a certain time (1920's).
They came to Europe in search of the illusive 'something' (Fame, Fortune, Notoriety) or maybe just to get away from the perceived 'sameness' of America. They found all that plus alcohol, sex, and each other.
For the period they gamboled and drank and had sex and fought ..and occasionally wrote. Out of all this interaction there were some of the great books of American Literature written. Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein, the books 'The Sun Also Rises', 'The Great Gatsby' and the blazing meteor that was Joyce and his 'Ulysses'. Paris was a seemingly endless party (or Moveable Feast)and then it was over.
But there were lesser (or less well known) talents that somehow made that time 'The time'. Loy, Beach, Barnes, McAlmon, Boyle are fascinating in their own regard. All of them contributed to the atmosphere and all were genuises in their own way.
Carpenter has managed a light, gossipy book that is an easy read and very entertaining along the way. Yes, there are some factual errors, some little quibs of unsupported rumor here and there. But the people come to so much 'life' on these pages! If you're interested in the time and place, you will understand these people so much better at the end of the book.
They came to Europe in search of the illusive 'something' (Fame, Fortune, Notoriety) or maybe just to get away from the perceived 'sameness' of America. They found all that plus alcohol, sex, and each other.
For the period they gamboled and drank and had sex and fought ..and occasionally wrote. Out of all this interaction there were some of the great books of American Literature written. Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Stein, the books 'The Sun Also Rises', 'The Great Gatsby' and the blazing meteor that was Joyce and his 'Ulysses'. Paris was a seemingly endless party (or Moveable Feast)and then it was over.
But there were lesser (or less well known) talents that somehow made that time 'The time'. Loy, Beach, Barnes, McAlmon, Boyle are fascinating in their own regard. All of them contributed to the atmosphere and all were genuises in their own way.
Carpenter has managed a light, gossipy book that is an easy read and very entertaining along the way. Yes, there are some factual errors, some little quibs of unsupported rumor here and there. But the people come to so much 'life' on these pages! If you're interested in the time and place, you will understand these people so much better at the end of the book.
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