- Gebundene Ausgabe: 192 Seiten
- Verlag: Carroll & Graf Publishers Inc; Auflage: 1st Carroll & Graf Ed (12. Oktober 2000)
- Sprache: Englisch
- ISBN-10: 0786707860
- ISBN-13: 978-0786707867
- Größe und/oder Gewicht: 22,6 x 15,7 x 3 cm
- Amazon Bestseller-Rang: Nr. 842.385 in Englische Bücher (Siehe Top 100 in Englische Bücher)
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In hindsight, Paris in^B the 1930s has the aura of a "ship of fools." On the surface, the city sustained its well-deserved reputation as the great cultural center of Europe. It remained a mecca for artists and intellectuals from around the world, including American expatriates (e.g., Hemingway, Henry Miller, Gertrude Stein) who constituted the "lost generation." Tragically, while Dali and Picasso painted, while existentialists debated in Left Bank cafes, while proponents of haute couture thrived, the social and political rot gnawing at the innards of the Third Republic accelerated. Wiser, an award-winning novelist and author of The Crazy Years: Paris in the Twenties (1983), is a gifted writer who combines the best attributes of a storyteller and historical chronicler. The result is a deeply moving but ultimately sad account of a city whose brightest lights seemed oblivious to impending doom. Jay Freeman
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This lavishly illustrated social history of Paris as it went through the 1930s looks at the how throughout that decade the city continued to revel in Montparnasse and Montmartre, retained its allure as a magnet city to celebrated expatriates, and how the fall of Paris came with Nazi occupation in 1940. Illustrations.
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Colorful yet flawed and slanted view of Paris in the 1930s
22. Juni 2001
Format:Gebundene Ausgabe
The main characters are here: Stavisky, Daladier, Reynaud in politics, Sartre (very briefly), Picasso, Dali in the arts, Chanel, Coty, etc. Several rather minor artists, such as the photographer Brassaï, are also presented in an interesting, anecdotal fashion. So much space is devoted to James Joyce, Henry Miller and others, however, that it should really be titled "Expatriates in 1930s Paris." Numerous American preconceptions about the French are repeated. The book is also seriously compromised by the many mistakes in French ("C'est moi qui EST l'artiste," "pas DES histoires" -- The words "et" and "est" are not, as Wiser implies, pronounced the same) and by factual mistakes (The French Academy does not edit the Larousse Dictionary; The obelisk in the Place de la Concorde is incorrectly identified as 'Cleopatra's Needle'; Chaplin's the Great Dictator was not made in the early 1930s, etc.). There is such sloppy chronology, one wonders how much of the other details the author has simply invented, or embroidered.
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Completely engaging
23. November 2000
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Mr. Wiser's Book on Paris is a fascinating desultory hop through the City of Light in the thirties. It's filled with little known, and all too brief, insights into personalities from James Joyce to Hemingway to Dali and Picasso. An excellent read. Well worth the time.
(Although Mr. Wiser's facts might need some checking as regards the death of Louis XIV. (Page 129))
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I didn't know know that
16. August 2010
Two things I didn't know:
One, Louis the XIV was guillotined (I somehow got the idea in my head - no pun intended- that it was Louis XVI), and, that Anita Bryant was the widow of John Reed (I thought it was Louise Bryant). Reed, cad that he was, was probably trying to get his hands on as much free Minute Maid orange juice that he could.
One, Louis the XIV was guillotined (I somehow got the idea in my head - no pun intended- that it was Louis XVI), and, that Anita Bryant was the widow of John Reed (I thought it was Louise Bryant). Reed, cad that he was, was probably trying to get his hands on as much free Minute Maid orange juice that he could.
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