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Paris Interzone: James Campbell

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Synopsis:

Beginning with Richard Wright’s meeting with Gertrude Stein in 1946 and ending with his death in suspicious circumstances fourteen years later, Paris Interzone provides a compelling look at the Left Bank café society that dominated postwar Paris.

James Campbell writes about James Baldwin, Nabokov, Boris Vian, Maurice Girodias and reveals a multitude of strange tales: the resurrection of Samuel Beckett by a small Left Bank magazine; the truth about the scandalous best-seller The Story of O; and what happened when the Beat Generation came to Paris. Above all, Campbell celebrates the prevailing spirit of freedom in those years and the art it fostered.

 

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Further reading:

Douglas Field also writes about James Campbell's Talking at the Gates, his biography of African American author James Baldwin. Read it here.

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Categorised as:

Non-fiction

Sub-categories:

Essays & Prose

Genres & Themes:

Beckett; Counterculture; Faber Finds; Intellectuals; Scandal; Writers

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