Memorie di Montparnasse
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9788838930867 (8838930864)
Publish date: September 19th 2013
Publisher: Sellerio
Pages no: 448
Edition language: Italian
Category:
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
History,
Literature,
Cultural,
Art,
Biography Memoir,
France,
Canada
”It was henceforth to be the arena of our love, the scene, in the words of Victor Hugo, of our sublime combats; if I had known the toll they took of my strength and health, I might have made them less sublime. Here I should like to warn all young men against nymphomaniac women: these lovely succubi ...
A great memoir of a misspent youth, and of Paris in that wonderful time between the wars, when the city was the world capital of art and sex and adventure. The author fled from Canada to Montmartre in the late 20s and lived a hand-to-mouth existence, subsisting on bouillon and gin in various lonely ...
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