Sydney and Violet
Subtitle: a modernist power couple and their life with Eliot, Proust, Joyce, Huxley, Mansfield, Picasso and the excruciatingly irascible Wyndham Lewis
By: Stephen Klaidman
Edition: First Anchor books edition.
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 268
ISBN-13: 9780307742117
Copyright date: 2013
Subjects: Modernism (Literature); Friends and associates; Friendship
Description: A portrait of the twentieth-century literary couple describes their friendships with personalities ranging from Picasso to Aldous Huxley and provides a social, intellectual, and cultural history of the modernist movement.
Notes: Includes index.
Table of contents: title: Sydney's travels; title: Families; title: The modernist world; title: The war years; title: A volatile relationship; title: Annus mirabilis; title: A friendship in letters I; title: A friendship in letters II; title: A falling out; title: New friends; title: The Apes of God and modernist satire; title: Violet alone.