Agnès Poirier - Left Bank: Art, Passion, and the Rebirth of Paris, 1940-50
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In this fascinating tour of a celebrated city during one of its most trying, significant, and ultimately triumphant eras, Agnes Poirier unspools the stories of the poets, writers, painters, and philosophers whose lives collided to extraordinary effect between 1940 and 1950. She gives us the human drama behind some of the most celebrated works of the 20th century, from Richard WrightsNative Son, Simone de BeauvoirsThe Second Sex, and James BaldwinsGiovannis Roomto Samuel BeckettsWaiting for Godotand Saul BellowsAugie March, along with the origin stories of now legendary movements, from Existentialism to the Theatre of the Absurd, New Journalism, bebop, and French feminism.
We follow Arthur Koestler and Norman Mailer as young men, peek inside Picassos studio, and trail the twists of Camuss Sartres, and Beauvoirs epic love stories. We witness the births and deaths of newspapers and literary journals and peer through keyholes to see the first kisses and last nights of many ill-advised bedfellows. At every turn, Poirier deftly hones in on the most compelling and colorful history, without undermining the crucial significance of the era. She brings to life the flawed, visionary Parisians who fell in love and out of it, who infuriated and inspired one another, all while reconfiguring the worlds political, intellectual, and creative landscapes.
With its balance of clear-eyed historical narrative and irresistible anecdotal charm,Left Banktransports readers to a Paris teeming with passion, drama, and life.
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To Franois
I would like to particularly thank Bill Swainson for his unwavering support and heartwarming erudition; Simon Trewin, a wonderful born trouper; Dorian Karchmar for her laser-sharp eye and attention to details; Gillian Blake, favorite publisher grande dame; Caroline Zancan, editor supremo alongside Kerry Cullen; and Michael Fishwick at Bloomsbury for his shrewd comments.
I would also like to thank my first reader, Linden Lawson, whose enthusiasm proved a great support, and Anna Herv, a most astute poisson pilote and adviser.
In the course of researching this book, I think I fell in love with both writer Irwin Shaw and the Louvres savior Jacques Jaujard, I sympathized with Janet Flanners quest for a third sex, smiled at Saul Bellows superiority complex, and was awed by Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartres brazen intelligence. I didnt drink the way they used to on the Left Bank in postwar Paris, nor did I take any drugs, but sometimes I wish I had.
And to Nicole Parrot, the great inspiration behind this book, Id like to say: We will always have Paris.
Paris was not weary of us. We were still handsome and admired; they smiled and turned on the street. The rooms were chill but they had proportion and there was more than a hint of another life, free of familiar inhibitions, a sacred life, this great museum and pleasure garden evolved for you alone.
J AMES S ALTER, Burning the Days
1939 | |
August 23 | Soviet foreign minister Molotov and his German counterpart von Ribbentrop sign a pact of nonaggression giving Hitler free rein to attack the West. |
August 24 | Jacques Jaujard closes the Louvre: four thousand treasures are being packed for safety secretly. |
September 1 | Germany invades Poland. |
September 3 | France and Great Britain declare war on Germany. |
1940 | |
May | Hiding in Paris at Sylvia Beachs Shakespeare and Company bookshop, Arthur Koestler sends his manuscript Darkness at Noon to a London publisher. |
May 10 | Germany invades Belgium and northern France. |
June 10 | Mussolinis Italy declares war on France and Britain. |
June 11 | The French government flees Paris. |
June 14 | The German army enters Paris. |
June 18 | In an address broadcast by the BBC, French general Charles de Gaulle calls from London for France to continue the fight, urging all young men and women to join him in rsistance . |
June 22 | Jean-Paul Sartre and Henri Cartier-Bresson are held prisoner and taken to war prisoners camps in Germany. |
June 23 | Adolf Hitler poses for photographers in front of the Eiffel Tower. |
1941 | |
March | Jean-Paul Sartre is back in Paris after escaping his prisoners camp. |
April | Beauvoir, Sartre, and Merleau-Ponty start Resistance group Socialisme et Libert |
September | but soon give up as many members prefer the more effective communist resistance groups. Sartre goes back to teaching philosophy at the Lyce Condorcet. |
December | Germany declares war on the United States. |
1942 | |
January | Sonderfhrer Gerhard Heller, the Francophile and yet German censor of French literature, reads Albert Camus The Outsider and authorizes its publication. |
September | The CNE, Comit National des crivains, the rsistant writers group, has its weekly meetings at the flat of writer dith Thomas. |
November | The United States invades North Africa. |
1943 | |
June | Jean-Paul Sartres play Les mouches opens at the Thtre de la Cit. |
August | The same week, Jean-Paul Sartres seven-hundred-page philosophy treatise Ltre et le nant ( Being and Nothingness ) and Simone de Beauvoirs first novel, Linvite ( She Came to Stay ), the semiautobiographical story of a mnage--trois, are released. |
September | Picasso asks Hungarian photographer Brassa, who lives in hiding in Paris, to take pictures of the works he has done under the occupation. |
1944 | |
June | On June 6, D-Day starts at dawn. Henri Cartier-Bresson and Georges Braque listen to the news together on the wireless. |
August | The insurrection in Paris starts on August 16. Nazi commander von Choltitz signs his surrender on August 25 at 4:15 p.m. |
September | Lpuration (the purge) of collaborators starts. |
1945 | |
January | Albert Camus, editor of Combat , sends Jean-Paul Sartre as a reporter to the United States for his first American trip and Beauvoir to report on life in Spain and Portugal. |
July | Alexander Calder works on a mobile exhibition with the help of Marcel Duchamp and Jean-Paul Sartre, whom he has just befriended. |
August | Marshal Ptains trial for treason. Atom bomb is dropped on Hiroshima. |
October | Sartre gives his lecture Is Existentialism a Humanism? at Club Maintenant. Women faint. |
Elections in France. The French decide to bury the Third Republic. | |
1946 | |
January | Charles de Gaulle resigns. |
April | Arthur Koestlers Darkness at Noon is a fast bestseller in France. |
May | Richard Wright settles in Paris. |
September | Simone de Beauvoir starts research on The Second Sex . |
December | Boris Vian secretly publishes his first novel, Jirai cracher sur vos tombes ( I Spit on Your Graves ), under the pseudonym Vernon Sullivan, a black American writer. Its sex scenes land its publishers in court. |
1947 | |
January | Beauvoir, on a four-month trip to the United States, meets and falls in love with Nelson Algren. |
March | President Truman institutes the loyalty program. |
April | Jazz club and bar Le Tabou on the rue Dauphine opens its doors, soon branded the Existentialist den. |
June | Albert Camus La peste hits the bookshops in Paris. |
The U.S. secretary of state, George Marshall, outlines what would become the Marshall Plan in a speech to Harvard graduate students. |
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