This scholarly study examines important literary works by giants of the modernist movement, specifically books written between the world wars. Pizer is primarily concerned with distinctly resonant responses to "the mythic reality of Paris," as manifest in the works of such major figures as Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, Nin, and Miller. Paris as a setting is analyzed, and likewise the ways in which the city presumably nourished creative impulses. Pizer looks at varying forms of modernism in autobiographies, journals, and novels, relating work of this period by Stein and Hemingway to the cubist movement in the visual arts. Pizer's reasoning is generally accessible and his insights are often stimulating.
Alice Joyce
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Synopsis
A selection of readings of seven modernist works whose principle subject is the American in Paris between the world wars. Works cited include: "A Moveable Feast" and "The Sun Also Rises" by Ernest Hemingway, "The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas", by Gertrude Stein.
