Twentieth Century Paris by Mariejos Gransard
Paris is the crowning jewel of France, and this literary guide for travellers explores its twentieth century history, from 1900-1950. Paris at the turn of the twentieth century had become the cultural capital of the world. Artists and writers came to contribute to flourishing avant-garde movements, as the Left Bank became a new centre of creativity. It drew tourists and travellers, but also many exiled from their home countries or escaping political persecution, and those seeking freedom from social constraints. The romantic myth of Paris persists, but Marie-José Gransard explores the darker side of the City of Lights. She brings her subjects to life by describing where and how they lived, what they wrote and what was written about them, through a wide-ranging literary legacy of diaries, memoirs, letters, poetry, theatre, cinema and fiction. In Twentieth-Century Paris: A Literary Guide for Travellers (1900-1950) both the visitor and the armchair traveller will find familiar names, from Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell to Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield. They will encounter unfairly forgotten or neglected writers, many artists and musicians, famous and less well-known Russians, and writers and thinkers from as far as the Caribbean and Latin America.
Born in Northern France, Marie-José Gransard studied English at the Sorbonne in Paris and her career has been in language and culture. She has worked with Hilary Spurling on her biography of Matisse and with Anthony Holden for his life of Lorenzo da Ponte. She divides her time between London and Venice where she is presently researching the literary legacy of visitors to the city and has written Venice: A Literary Guide For Travellers.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780755601769 |
| ISBN 10 | 0755601769 |
| Title | Twentieth Century Paris |
| Author | Mariejos Gransard |
| Series | Literary Guides For Travellers |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Bloomsbury Publishing PLC |
| Year published | 2025-06-09 |
| Number of pages | 352 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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