Montparnasse: Paris's District Of Memory And Desire (great Parisian Neighborhoods)
by John Baxter /
2017 / English / EPUB
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In the third portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods,
award-winning raconteur John Baxter takes readers on a dazzling
excursion of Montparnasse.
In the third portrait of his series Great Parisian Neighborhoods,
award-winning raconteur John Baxter takes readers on a dazzling
excursion of Montparnasse.
By the IACP Award-winning author of the national bestseller
By the IACP Award-winning author of the national bestsellerThe Most Beautiful Walk in the World
The Most Beautiful Walk in the World, MONTPARNASSE
reveals the history and present delights of the iconic
neighborhood that is best associated with the vibrant
1920-30s-era Paris—a romantic time and place evoked in
Hemingway's memoir
, MONTPARNASSE
reveals the history and present delights of the iconic
neighborhood that is best associated with the vibrant
1920-30s-era Paris—a romantic time and place evoked in
Hemingway's memoirA Moveable Feast
A Moveable Feast and Henry Miller's
and Henry Miller'sTropic of Cancer
Tropic of Cancer. From the first meeting of Hemingway
and F. Scott Fitzgerald to their friendship's bitter conclusion;
from the courage of the anti-Nazi resistance to the clubs where
German generals partied; from the attempted murder of Samuel
Beckett to the rise of Josephine Baker to stardom; from
the high life of the Coupole and the Cafe du Dôme to the
bawdy music halls of rue de la Gaité; no Paris quarter has
witnessed more tumultuous events than Montparnasse.
. From the first meeting of Hemingway
and F. Scott Fitzgerald to their friendship's bitter conclusion;
from the courage of the anti-Nazi resistance to the clubs where
German generals partied; from the attempted murder of Samuel
Beckett to the rise of Josephine Baker to stardom; from
the high life of the Coupole and the Cafe du Dôme to the
bawdy music halls of rue de la Gaité; no Paris quarter has
witnessed more tumultuous events than Montparnasse.
In a ground-breaking reappraisal of this most glamorous of
Paris's districts, Baxter looks beyond the nostalgia to the
secret history of Montparnasse, a district where desire effaced
memory and every taste could be satisfied—even those which were
unexpressed. If, as Oscar Wilde suggested, all good
Americans went to Paris when they died, it was Montparnasse that
brought them back to life.
In a ground-breaking reappraisal of this most glamorous of
Paris's districts, Baxter looks beyond the nostalgia to the
secret history of Montparnasse, a district where desire effaced
memory and every taste could be satisfied—even those which were
unexpressed. If, as Oscar Wilde suggested, all good
Americans went to Paris when they died, it was Montparnasse that
brought them back to life.