The twilight years
Subtitle: Paris in the 1930s
By: William Wiser
Edition: 1st Carroll & Graf ed.
Publisher: Carroll & Graf
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 292
ISBN-13: 9780786707867; 9780786709366
Subjects: Nineteen thirties; Arts; Intellectual life; Geistesleben; Avant-garde; Expatriate artists; Intellectuals; Culturele participatie; Kulturleben; Geschichte 1920-1930; History
Description: "Despite the stock market crash of 1929, Paris lost none of its magical allure for artists and expatriates in the 1930s. Jazz orchestrated Parisian nights, surrealism flourished, haute couture reinvented itself. James Joyce redefined modern literature with Finnegans Wake and at her cabaret Josephine Baker redefined the derriere. At salons and galleries, palaces and cafes, Henry Miller, Helena Rubinstein, Anais Nin, Coco Chanel, Salvador Dali, Elsa Schiaparelli, T. S.

Eliot, and Katherine Anne Porter joined illustrious exiles of the twenties like Gertrude Stein, Sylvia Beach, Pablo Picasso, Janet Flanner, and Man Ray." "The Twilight Years tells their story, and the city's. It chronicles the decade that continued to foster the brilliant creative revolution of the expatriate era - an era that ended with perhaps the grimmest event in modern French history: the fall of Paris and the Nazi occupation in 1940."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [275]-284) and index.