Fortunes of France The Brethren |
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Author:
| Merle, Robert Morand, Paul |
Translator:
| Cameron, Euan |
ISBN: | 978-1-78227-044-7 |
Publication Date: | Jan 2015 |
Publisher: | Pushkin Press, Limited
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Book Format: | Ebook |
List Price: | AUD $29.99 |
Book Description:
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A poetic evocation of the French diplomat’s encounters and experiences, filtered through the one constant in his life--Venice.
Diplomat, writer and poet, traveller and socialite, friend of Proust, Giraudoux and Malraux, Paul Morand was out of the most original writers of the twentieth century. He was French literature's globe-trotter, and his delightful autobiography is far from being yet another account of a writer's life. Instead it is a poetic evocation...
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A poetic evocation of the French diplomat’s encounters and experiences, filtered through the one constant in his life--Venice.
Diplomat, writer and poet, traveller and socialite, friend of Proust, Giraudoux and Malraux, Paul Morand was out of the most original writers of the twentieth century. He was French literature's globe-trotter, and his delightful autobiography is far from being yet another account of a writer's life. Instead it is a poetic evocation of certain scenes among Morand's rich and varied encounters and experience, filtered through the one constant in his life--the one place to which he would always return--Venice.
Admired both by Ezra Pound and by Marcel Proust as a pioneer craftsman of Modernist French prose (...) The sheer shapeliness of his prose recalls Hemingway; the urbanity of his self-destructiveness compares with Fitzgerald's; and his camera eye is as lucidly stroboscopic as that of Dos Passos. He is, like Victor Segalen, Blaise Cendrars, Valery Larbaud, and Saint-John Perse, one of the great nomads of 20th-century French literature, racing through the apocalypse with the haste and glamor of an Orient Express. It is a pity we should have had to wait this long to catch up with him. --
The New York Times Venices is balanced by the sharpness of the imagery. He writes in a melancholy vein of the loves, jealousies and regrets he has experienced in Venice ... Exquisitely translated, Venices is a travel memoir of the highest order. -- IAN THOMSON,
Sunday Times