Agnès Poirier

Left Bank (eBook, ePUB)

Art, Passion and the Rebirth of Paris 1940-1950

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

'Rich and funny' Julian Barnes, Guardian

'Poirier's hugely enjoyable, quick-witted and richly anecdotal book is magnifique' The Times

A captivating portrait of those who lived, loved, fought, played and flourished in Paris between 1940 and 1950 and whose intellectual and artistic output still influences us today.

After the horrors of the Second World War, Paris was the place where the world's most original voices of the time came - among them Norman Mailer, Miles Davis, Simone de Beauvoir, James Baldwin, Juliette Greco, Alberto Giacometti, Saul Bellow and Arthur Koestler. Fuelled by the elation of the Liberation, these pioneers hoped to find an alternative to the Capitalist and Communist models for life, art and politics - a Third Way.

Agnès Poirier transports us to a time when Paris was at the heart of all that was new and brave and controversial, skilfully weaving together a collage of images and destinies.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury UK eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 400
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. März 2018
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781408857465
• Artikelnr.: 51425942

Autorenporträt

Agnès Poirier is a Paris-born and London-educated journalist, writer, critic and broadcaster. She is the author of four essays about the different ways in which France and Britain do things, topics she tirelessly discusses on the BBC, Sky News and CNN and writes about in, among others, the Guardian, the Observer, The Times, Marianne, Télérama and L'Espresso. She has also taught at Sciences-Po in Paris, and pre-selects British films for the Cannes film festival. She loves cycling and the songs of Charles Trenet. She lives in Paris and London.

Inhaltsangabe

Chronology xiii
Cast of Characters xv
Map: Paris Left Bank xvi
Introduction 1
I. War Was My Master
1. The Fall 9
2. The Choice 23
3. The Fight 46
4. The Desire 73
II. Modern Times
5. A Philosophy of Existence 95
6. Lust and Emancipation 116
7. A Third Way 136
III. The Ambiguities of Action
8. How Not to Be a Communist? 157
9. Love, Style, Drugs, and Loneliness 177
10. Action and Dissidence 189
11. "Paris's Gloom Is a Powerful Astringent" 213
IV. Sharpening the Senses
12. "They Owned Art While We Were Just Full of Dollars" 229
13. Stimulating the Nerves 240
14. Anger, Spite, and Failure 252
15. Vindicated 266
16. Farewells and a New Dawn 278
Notes 293
Acknowledgments 315
Index 317