Being Geniuses Together 1920-1930 - Brossura

McAlmon, Robert; Boyle, Kay

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0801855845 ISBN 13: 9780801855849

Casa editrice: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr, 1997

Riassunto

There was no more exhilarating decade in the history of modern letters than the twenties in Paris. They were all there: Ezra Pound, Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, James Joyce, John Dos Passos, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Mina Loy, T. S. Eliot, Djuna Barnes, Ford Madox Ford, Katherine Mansfield, Alice B. Toklas...and with them were Robert McAlmon and Kay Boyle.
Their collaborative memoir began as a book written by McAlmon in 1934. In the late 1960s, Kay Boyle revised and edited the book, adding alternating chapters of her own. The result is a marvelous chronicle of the period as seen through two sets of perceptive eyes. As both writers tell wonderful anecdotes - of Joyce on his evening binges, of Stein holding court, of Hemingway at his most vicious - they beautifully evoke 1920s Paris in this sad, funny, informative, and nostalgic memoir.

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Recensione:

"This collaboration -- posthumous in McAlmon's case -- has proved amazingly successful. It gives us pictures of two lives -- and many surrounding lives -- from different angles, as if they had been taken with a stereoscopic camera. Thereby it gives us an impression of depth and substantiality that have been lacking in other memoirs of Paris in the 1920's." -- Malcolm Cowley, New York Times Book Review

Descrizione del libro:

A beautiful evocation of 1920s Paris in a sad, funny, informative, and nostalgic memoir.

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• Editore: Johns Hopkins Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 1997
• ISBN 10: 0801855845
• ISBN 13: 9780801855849
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 362