French painters had moved to America during the Occupation Matta, Masson, Chagall, Leger, Arp, and Duchamp. French writers, Sartre, Beauvoir, Camus, also went over to America on invitations, lecture tours, trips, to explore the dynamism and energy of capitalism. She begins and ends the book quoting two American novelists, James Salter and Irwin Shaw, and writes of the many Americans, Wright, Mailer, Bellow, Baldwin, Algren, White, Flanner, Youngerman, Seaver, Kelly, Davis, Gillespie, Armstrong and many more, in a kind of cross-fertilisation of cultural exchange between France and America. She writes with an eye to today and what still remains of that time in language, fashion, politics, standards. She takes the language of the time over and empties it of its jargon and intellectual ideas. To learn more about how and for what purposes Amazon uses personal information (such as Amazon Store order history), please visit our Privacy Notice.Īgnes Poirier is shrewd to cover a revolutionary decade in French history during the occupation and post-war period, and to limit it to Paris at its most concentrated and intense, politically, philosophically, culturally, historically. You can change your choices at any time by visiting Cookie Preferences, as described in the Cookie Notice. Click ‘Customise Cookies’ to decline these cookies, make more detailed choices, or learn more. Third parties use cookies for their purposes of displaying and measuring personalised ads, generating audience insights, and developing and improving products. This includes using first- and third-party cookies, which store or access standard device information such as a unique identifier. If you agree, we’ll also use cookies to complement your shopping experience across the Amazon stores as described in our Cookie Notice. We also use these cookies to understand how customers use our services (for example, by measuring site visits) so we can make improvements. We use cookies and similar tools that are necessary to enable you to make purchases, to enhance your shopping experiences and to provide our services, as detailed in our Cookie Notice.
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