Montparnasse and its caf life, the shabby working-class area of the place de la Contrescarpe and the Pantheon, the small restaurants and caf s along the Seine, and the Right Bank world of the well-to-do . . . for American writers self-exiled to Paris during the 1920s and...
Pizer (English, Tulane U.) examines the work of American writers self-exiled to Paris during the 1920s and 1930s, noting significant differences between the genres of expatriate autobiography and fiction. Writers examined in detail include Hemingway, Stein, Nin, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald,...