Paris is the crowning jewel of France, and this literary guide for travellers explores its 20th century history, from 1900-1950. Paris at the turn of the twentieth century had become the cultural capital of the world. Artists and writers came to contribute to flourishing avant-garde movements, as the Left Bank became a new centre of creativity. It drew tourists and travellers, but also many exiled from their home countries or escaping political persecution, and those seeking freedom from social constraints. The romantic myth of Paris persists, but Marie-Jose Gransard explores the darker side of the City of Lights. She brings her subjects to life by describing where and how they lived, what they wrote and what was written about them, through a wide-ranging literary legacy of diaries, memoirs, letters, poetry, theatre, cinema and fiction. In Twentieth-Century Paris: A Literary Guide for Travellers (1900-1950) both the visitor and the armchair traveller alike will find familiar names, from Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell to Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, and they will encounter unfairly forgotten or neglected writers, and many artists and musicians, famous and less well-known Russians, and writers and thinkers from as far as the Caribbean and Latin America.

Paris is the crowning jewel of France, and this literary guide for travellers explores its 20th century history, from 1900-1950.

About the Author
Born in Northern France, Marie-Jose Gransard studied English at the Sorbonne in Paris and her career has been in language and culture. She has worked with Hilary Spurling on her biography of Matisse and with Anthony Holden for his life of Lorenzo da Ponte. She is the author of Venice: A Literary Guide For Travellers.

Reviews
Twentieth Century Paris is stuffed full of fascinating information about the denizens of Paris during the first half of the century [...] also contains a number of illustrations and maps, so it really is the perfect guidebook. * Shiny New Books *
a roll call of creativity, based on wide research, with a wealth of anecdote. * The Spectator *



Book Information
ISBN 9780755601752
Author Marie-Jose Gransard
Format Hardback
Page Count 352
Imprint Tauris Parke
Publisher Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Weight(grams) 374g