Binding: Paperback
Description: An incandescent group portrait of the midcentury artists and thinkers whose lives loves collaborations and passions were forged against the wartime destruction and postwar rebirth of Paris. In this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying significant and ultimately triumphant eras Agn's Poirier unspools the stories of the poets writers painters and philosophers whose lives collided to extraordinary effect between 1940 and 1950. She gives us the human drama behind some of the most celebrated works of the 20th century from Richard Wright's Native Son Simone de Beauvoir's The Second Sex and James Baldwin's Giovanni's Room to Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot and Saul Bellow's Augie March along with the origin stories of now legendary movements from Existentialism to the Theatre of the Absurd New Journalism bebop and French feminism. We follow Arthur Koestler and Norman Mailer as young men peek inside Picasso's studio and trail the twists of Camus's Sartre's and Beauvoir's epic love stories. We witness the births and deaths of newspapers and literary journals and peer through keyholes to see the first kisses and last nights of many ill - advised bedfellows. At every turn Poirier deftly hones in on the most compelling and colorful history without undermining the crucial significance of the era. She brings to life the flawed visionary Parisians who fell in love and out of it who infuriated and inspired one another all while reconfiguring the world's political intellectual and creative landscapes. With its balance of clear - eyed historical narrative and irresistible anecdotal charm Left Bank transports readers to a Paris teeming with passion drama and life.
Title: Left Bank Art Passion And The Rebirth Of Paris 1940 - 50
Author(s): Poirier Agnes
Publisher: Picador
Barcode: 9781250231468
Pages: 368 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 9/17/2019
Category: European History