The Very Rich Hours of Adrienne Monnier
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| Rating | : | 4.88 (764 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0803282273 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 536 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-26 |
| Language | : | English |
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From Publishers Weekly Memoir by 1920s Left Bank stalwart and bookshop proprietor Monnier, whose circle of friends included Joyce and Colette. Copyright 1996 Cahners Business Information, Inc.
Richard McDougall is the translator of Herculine Barbin: Being the Recently Discovered Memoirs of a Nineteenth-Century Hermaphrodite.Brenda Wineapple, Washington Irving Professor of Modern Literary and Historical Studies at Union College, Schenectady, New York, is the author of Genet: A Biography of Janet Flanner, also a Bison Book.
Eliot, befriends Joyce, argues with Breton, takes walks with Gide, publishes her elegant reviews, and reflects on the ballet, opera, Steinberg drawings, Marlon Brando and Alec Guinness movies, and the country of her birth.. Her bookstore in the Rue de l’Odeon was aptly called La Maison des Amis des Livres.Monnier took a simple though sophisticated delight in language, books, art, music, nature, friendship, and food. She goes to lunch with Colette, visits T. In 1920s Paris, Adrienne Monnier provided a focal point for the writers and artists drawn to the Left Bank. Her 1940 journal, written as Paris fell to the Germans and originally published in 1976, is a rich tapestry of essays, reviews, and personal recollections. S
PERFECT. Would order again from this supplier PERFECT. Would order again from this supplier.. An excellent view of Paris at its peak in this century. A Customer Adrienne Monnier was one of the hidden focal points of the Lost Generation in Paris. Her bookstore, La Maison des Amis des Livres, was a meeting place for some of the most famous authors of the time and their fans. Joyce, Hemingway, Gide, Colette and Eliot were among her many associates in the literary world.In addition, she was in many ways a trailblazer. She opened her