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Harold Loeb
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The titans and lotus eaters of the 1920s are captured in this extraordinary and very readable literary document. Harold Loebs second novel recounts his experiences after the now-legendary 1925 Pamplona Fiesta (he is the original of Robert Cohn in Hemingways The Sun Also Rises). When he met Hemingway, Loeb had already had his first novel, Doodab (1924), accepted, and had come to know Malcolm Cowley, Ford Maddox Ford, James Joyce, Gertrude Stein, and Ezra Pound, among others. The Professors Like Vodka (1926) is the story of two American university professors who discover the Caveau Ukranien in Montmartre, meet the glamorous Vera, Countesse Adranova, and Cl?op?tre, daughter of a Russian General, and guided by the Russian women discover a new and exotic Paris, filled with gaiety, romance, and the bittersweetness of love. In the Afterword written for this new edition, Loeb recounts the circumstances of his writing of the novel and his subsequent career in Paris and in the United States. Mr. Loeb now lives in Weston, Connecticut.

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title	:	The Professors Like Vodka Lost American Fiction
author	:	Loeb, Harold.
publisher	:	Southern Illinois University Press
isbn10 \| asin	:	0809306646
print isbn13	:	9780809306640
ebook isbn13	:	9780585207476
language	:	English
subject	United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.
publication date	:	1974
lcc	:	PZ3.L8238Pr10eb
ddc	:	813/.5/2
subject	:	United States--Social life and customs--20th century--Fiction.

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Lost American Fiction

Edited by Matthew J. Bruccoli

The title for this series, "Lost American Fiction," is unsatisfactory. A more accurate series title would be "Forgotten American Works of Fiction That Deserve a New Public"which states the rationale for reprinting these titles. No claim is made that we are resuscitating lost masterpieces, although the first work in the series, Edith Summers Kelley's Weeds, may qualify. We are simply reprinting some works that are worth rereading because thay are now social documents (DryMartini) or literary documents (TheProfessorsLikeVodka). It isn't that simple, for Southern Illinois University Press is a scholarly publisher; and we do have serious ambitions for the series. We expect that these titles will revive some books and authors from undeserved obscurity, and that the series will therefore poug some of the holes in American literary history. Of course, we hope to find an occasional lost masterpiece.

M. J. B.

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The Professors Like Vodka

Harold Loeb

With an Afterword by the Author

Southern Illinois University Press
Carbondale and Edwardsville
Feffer & Simons, Inc.
London and Amsterdam

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Loeb, Harold, 1891
The professors like vodka.
(Lost American fiction)
Reprint, with a new afterword, of the ed. published by Boni
& Liveright, New York.
I. Title.
PZ3.L8238Pr10 [PS3523.0278] 813'.5'2 73.16121
ISBN 0-8093-0664-6

Copyright 1927 by Boni & Liveright, Inc.
Copyright renewed 1954 by Harold A. Loeb
Afterword by Harold A. Loeb and Texual Note by Matthew J. Bruccoli, copyright 1974 by Southern Illinois University Press
All rights reserved
This edition printed by offset lithography in the United States of America
Designed by Gary Gore

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To
My Friend
MALCOLM COWLEY

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Chapter One

Professor Mercado was not the kind of man whom strangers and casual acquaintances usually addressed. His wide, firm mouth and solid chin were forbidding in repose. Nor was his friend, Professor Halsey, though of a mild appearance, easy to approach. Yet the young man, who had been eyeing them insistently from a nearby table, suddenly rose and slouched into a chair along-side.

"Remember me?" he said. "I'm Hamilton Corey. Used to take one of your coursesEnglish 14a. Let me see. It was entitled 'American Literature from the Beginnings till 1850.' You gave me C+. Your name's Pro-

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fessor Mercado. I'm fried. Don't mind, do you, if I order another drink?"

Undoubtedly, Mercado thought, Paris has a demoralizing effect on young Americans. But his former pupil was still speaking.

"There goes Sam Hewitt. Tough luck for poor old Sam. They 'rested him, gave him two weeks to leave Paris. I'm just like that.

"That is, I'm not being put out, but I have to leave. Time's up. Four years in Paris, Beaux-Arts and all that. Graduated. Going home. Got a job in an architect's office. Be respectable. Must see Vera. Countess Adranova. Can't, not till midnight. Relatives come first.

"Good-by, youth. Understand, I'm not complaining. I'm twenty-seven now, time to settle down 'n' find a nice girl. Maybe I'll even like her. Going to be a success, big success, design country houses to look just like Petit Trianon. A dieu, au revoir, so long Paris, je t'embrasse la main. Anyhow I've lived.

"You're a Jew, aren't you, Mercado? And what about you? I forget your name, never took your courses... Halsey, did you say? Well, you sound like a New Englander. I

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lived. You never lived. Imagine either of you getting pie-eyed and rolling in the gutter. Imagine you having an affair with Vera! Can't. No life in you, nothing but Greensborough University. In ten years I'll be as dead as you, but anyhow I'll have something to remember.

"Why don't you try just once? Caveau Ukranien. Ask for Vera. I'll meet you at twelve, no, twelve-thirty. On second thought you'd better keep away from Vera. Here's five francs to pay for my drinks. So long."

He rose and stumbled toward a taxi. "As if we knew nothing," Halsey grunted. "It makes me a little, well, angry to think of these boys. I've been fried, too, if I am a New England Puritan. Well, what do you say, John, shall we go home?"

"I suppose we might as well," Professor Mercado reluctantly answered. "A Russian Countess! Do you know I think, sometimes, that we're not getting all we should out of this city."

"Well, I'm game," said Halsey, "there's a taxicab now. The five francs just about cover the drinks

"Taxi!" He stopped the cab and asked in

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careful Greensborough French: "Vous connaissez le... le Caveau Ukranien?"

"Wait a minute," said Mercado, "don't go off like that. Let's talk it over."

"All right." Halsey waved the driver to go on. "Shall we have another drink?" And then Mercado changed the subject and never even mentioned the Caveau until three days later.

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