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Between 1944 and 1960, a second wave of expatriate American writers took up residence in Paris, some seeking the exciting ambiance of art and the bohemian life that Paris had offered earlier generations, some escaping from racist and material aspects of the United States. While much has been written about the Lost Generation between the wars, little has been said about their post-war successors. And yet, what dazzling talent was present in Paris during this later period. Richard Wright, James Baldwin, James Jones, William Styron, Chester Himes, George Plimpton, John Ashbery, Harry Mathews, Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Alexander Trocchi, Gregory Corso, Brion Gysin, and William S. Burroughs are among those who flocked to Paris and produced important and enduring poetry and fiction. Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno sees through the Paris of glamorous legend to the sometimes starker reality of those times in this entertaining, anecdotal account of the friendships and associations the writers formed, the cross-cultural influences they experienced, what the discovered, and what they brought back. “An impressive mosaic of the Parisan American literary scene.” – Publishers Weekly Christopher Sawyer-Lauçanno is the author of An Invisible Spectator; a biography of Paul Bowles, and the translator of Concerning the Angels, poems by Rafael Alberti. He lives in Massachusetts, where he teaches in the Program in Writing and Humanistic Studies at MIT. |
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