Proust At The Majestic
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Author | : Richard Davenport-Hines |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 376 |
Release | : 2006-06 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : |
Presents a study of the final days of the seminal author and discusses his upbringing, themes in his works, his rise as a famous writer, and the final months before his death.
Author | : Richard Davenport-Hines |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : Artists |
ISBN | : 9780571220090 |
'A Night at the Majestic' evokes the luxury and glamour of early 20th century Paris, the intellectual achievement of the modernist movement and the gossip, intrigue and scandal of aristocratic France.
Author | : Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines |
Publisher | : Clipper Audio |
Total Pages | : |
Release | : 2009-09-01 |
Genre | : Artists |
ISBN | : 9781407443416 |
The intriguing story of the most extraordinary dinner party of all time - the night Proust, Joyce, Picasso and Stravinsky all met at the Majestic in Paris. One May night in 1922, in a grand hotel in Paris, five of the greatest artists of the 20th century sat down to supper. It would be the only time that Joyce and Proust, Picasso, Diaghilev and Stravinsky were in a room together. Each of these exponents of early twentieth-century modernism was at the peak of his creative powers, and of all of them, Proust was enjoying the most spectacular success. Yet within six months he would be dead. A Night at the Majestic evokes the luxury and glamour of early-twentieth century Paris, the intellectual achievement of the modernist movement and the gossip, intrigue and scandal of aristocratic France.
Author | : Richard Davenport-Hines |
Publisher | : Bloomsbury Publishing USA |
Total Pages | : 372 |
Release | : 2006-06-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 158234471X |
Presents a study of the final days of the seminal author and discusses his upbringing, themes in his works, his rise as a famous writer, and the final months before his death.
Author | : Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 358 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Artists |
ISBN | : |
On a night in May 1922, five of the greatest artists of the 20th century sat down to supper: Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Serge Diaghilev and Igor Stravinsky.
Author | : Mary McAuliffe |
Publisher | : Rowman & Littlefield |
Total Pages | : 433 |
Release | : 2014-03-16 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 144222164X |
Mary McAuliffe’s Dawn of the Belle Epoque took the reader from the multiple disasters of 1870–1871 through the extraordinary re-emergence of Paris as the cultural center of the Western world. Now, in Twilight of the Belle Epoque, McAuliffe portrays Paris in full flower at the turn of the twentieth century, where creative dynamos such as Picasso, Matisse, Stravinsky, Debussy, Ravel, Proust, Marie Curie, Gertrude Stein, Jean Cocteau, and Isadora Duncan set their respective circles on fire with a barrage of revolutionary visions and discoveries. Such dramatic breakthroughs were not limited to the arts or sciences, as innovators and entrepreneurs such as Louis Renault, André Citroën, Paul Poiret, François Coty, and so many others—including those magnificent men and women in their flying machines—emphatically demonstrated. But all was not well in this world, remembered in hindsight as a golden age, and wrenching struggles between Church and state as well as between haves and have-nots shadowed these years, underscored by the ever-more-ominous drumbeat of the approaching Great War—a cataclysm that would test the mettle of the City of Light, even as it brutally brought the Belle Epoque to its close. Through rich illustrations and evocative narrative, McAuliffe brings this remarkable era from 1900 through World War I to vibrant life.
Author | : Patricia Kramer |
Publisher | : Penguin Random House South Africa |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2021-03-01 |
Genre | : Architecture |
ISBN | : 1432310216 |
The Karoo is big sky country; a land of vast open plains punctuated by flat-topped mountains, conical hills and secluded valleys, a land of scrubby bushes and hardy trees, where pioneers carved roads out of rock to set down roots in an unforgiving environment. Here dreams are born, legends are made, and outcasts find sanctuary. It is also an ancient place, whose story is revealed through geology, fossils and artefacts, and whose human lineage predates any written history. Today, the people who inhabit it must manifest the same fortitude that sustained those who left their footprints in the primieval mud. In Hidden Karoo you will find all this, and more. Through a series of superb photo-essays, this majestic place is revealed as a land where conservation and neglect are seldom far apart, where one town boasts splendidly restored buildings, while along a dusty back road lie forgotten villages waiting for ... something. Could it be a renewal, or a slow death? There’s nothing novel about the movement of people from country to city, and the Karoo mimics other parts of the world where rural areas become derelict as they are depopulated. Hidden Karoo presents a snapshot of the region as it is now, offering a glimpse into towns and villages, farmsteads and churches, important buildings and humble homes, all against a backdrop of awe-inspiring landscapes. Through words and pictures, it prompts us to consider what was, what is and, perhaps, what might be. One constant about the Karoo is change. A book can do no more than capture a moment in time or depict fragments of a place, but in doing so, it bears witness to the past and offers the hope that there may yet be a future for this unparalleled part of our country.
Author | : Richard Davenport-Hines |
Publisher | : HarperCollins UK |
Total Pages | : 381 |
Release | : 2015-03-12 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0007519818 |
From the bestselling and award-winning author of ‘An English Affair’, a dazzlingly original thematic biography which throws fresh light on the greatest economist of the twentieth century.
Author | : William C. Carter |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 902 |
Release | : 2013-04-16 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 0300195095 |
Reissued with a new preface to commemorate the first publication of "A la recherche du temps perdu" one hundred years ago, " Marcel Proust" portrays in abundant detail the extraordinary life and times of one of the greatest literary voices of the twentieth century. "An impeccably researched and well-paced narrative that brings vividly and credibly to life not only the writer himself but also the changing world he knew."-Roger Pearson, "New York Times Book Review" "William C. Carter is Proust's definitive biographer."-Harold Bloom Named a Notable Book of 2000 by the "New York Times Book Review""
Author | : Alex Ross |
Publisher | : Farrar, Straus and Giroux |
Total Pages | : 706 |
Release | : 2007-10-16 |
Genre | : Music |
ISBN | : 1429932880 |
Winner of the 2007 National Book Critics Circle Award for Criticism A New York Times Book Review Top Ten Book of the Year Time magazine Top Ten Nonfiction Book of 2007 Newsweek Favorite Books of 2007 A Washington Post Book World Best Book of 2007 In this sweeping and dramatic narrative, Alex Ross, music critic for The New Yorker, weaves together the histories of the twentieth century and its music, from Vienna before the First World War to Paris in the twenties; from Hitler's Germany and Stalin's Russia to downtown New York in the sixties and seventies up to the present. Taking readers into the labyrinth of modern style, Ross draws revelatory connections between the century's most influential composers and the wider culture. The Rest Is Noise is an astonishing history of the twentieth century as told through its music.