American Expatriate Writing and the Paris Moment: Modernism and Place

by Donald Pizer

Book Overview

Montparnasse and its caf life, the shabby working-class area of the place de la Contrescarpe and the Pantheon, the small restaurants and caf s along the Seine, and the Right Bank world of the well-to-do . . . for American writers self-exiled to Paris during the 1920s and 1930s, the French capital represented what their homeland could not: a milieu that, through the freedom of thought and action it permitted and the richness of life it offered,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0807122203
• ISBN13: 9780807122204
• Release Date: September 1997
• Publisher: LSU Press
• Length: 149 Pages
• Weight: 0.55 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.0" x 9.0"