Paris on the Brink – an historical account of 1930s Paris. Mary McAuliffe’s 2018 book, Paris on the Brink: The 1930s Paris of Jean Renoir, Salvado Dali, Simone de Beauvoir, Andre Gide, Sylvia Beach, Leon Blum, and Their Friends is an easy-to-read historical account of Paris. Long title, but it is a well-structured book withContinue reading “Paris on the Brink – an historical account of 1930s Paris”
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The Beauties and Furies by Christina Stead: Paris ‘the city of night’
The Beauties and Furies by Christina Stead: Paris ‘the city of night.’ The Beauties and Furies (1936) is set in Paris over the period of one year: 1934. But this is no lightweight romantic story. It is a challenging, complex novel in the vein of Virginia Woolf, reminding me of the magnificence of Stead’s writing.Continue reading “The Beauties and Furies by Christina Stead: Paris ‘the city of night’”