Paul Morand

Author : Paul Morand
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780811208895
Total Pages : 184 pages
Book Rating : 4.93/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Fancy Goods ; Open All Night written by Paul Morand and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1984 with total page 184 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The complete text of Pound's translations, consisting of Morand's two legendary collections.

Author : Paul Morand
Publisher : Pushkin Press
ISBN 13 : 1782270493
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Venices written by Paul Morand and published by Pushkin Press. This book was released on 2013-04-02 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "It is after experiencing life that I have returned here to think about myself." Paul Morand was a diplomat, traveller, socialite and one of the most erudite and original writers of the twentieth century. Venices is his typically unconventional autobiography: an evocative account of a remarkable life lived surrounded by the remarkable. Its poised, impressionistic, poetically vivid scenes add up year-by- year to a rich meditation, full of astonish- ing portraits and memories, joy as well as melancholy. Though Morand's reputation was mar- red for years by his involvement with the collaborationist Vichy government, this book, in its effortless elegance, demonstrates why his influence has been so great. The thread that holds it taut throughout is Venice, the city to which Morand always returned.

Author : Paul Morand
Publisher : Pushkin Press Classics
ISBN 13 : 1782270574
Total Pages : 143 pages
Book Rating : 4.77/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Allure of Chanel written by Paul Morand and published by Pushkin Press Classics. This book was released on 2013-05-14 with total page 143 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a foreword by Karl Lagerfeld, “this enchanting, tiny book”—a series of transcriptions from interviews with the fashion icon—is the closest anyone can get to a face-to-face with Coco [Chanel]” (The Spectator) Coco Chanel invited Paul Morand to visit her in St. Moritz at the end of the Second World War when he was given the opportunity to write her memoirs; his notes of their conversations were put away in a drawer and only came to light one year after Chanel’s death. Now, he presents them here in The Allure of Chanel. Through Morand’s transcription of their conversations, Chanel tells us about her friendship with Misia Sert, the men in her life—Boy Capel, the Duke of Westminster, artists such as Diaghilev, her philosophy of fashion and the story behind the legendary Number 5 perfume. The memories of Chanel told in her own words provide vivid sketches and portray the strength of Coco’s character, leaving us with an extraordinary insight into Chanel the woman and the woman who created Chanel.

Author : Kimberly Philpot van Noort
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004489088
Total Pages : 195 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul Morand written by Kimberly Philpot van Noort and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2021-10-18 with total page 195 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darling of the Jazz Age, the globe-trotting diplomat and acclaimed writer Paul Morand and his literary and political careers underwent a radical shift following his collaboration with the Vichy government during the Occupation of France. Abandoning the terse, glittering portraits of the contemporary era that had garnered him early fame, he turned to the past and to historical fiction, biography and autobiography.Paul Morand: The Politics and Practice of Writing in Post-War France, the first full-length study of Morand in English and the first ever of his post-war works, traces Morand’s politically charged explorations of history as he obsessively rewrites the Occupation in historical guise. From Napoleonic Spain to the court of Louis XIV, nineteenth-century California, Revolutionary France and Venice across the ages, Morand probes the limits of historiography and genre as he constructs a curiously Benjaminian model of redemption for his collaborationist heroes. This book analyses Morand’s post-war project, placing it within the highly-politicized context of writing during the de Gaullian era. Many issues are at stake in Morand’s late oeuvre, from the genres of historical fiction, biography and autobiography, to the very act of historicization itself in the context of the post-war era. Morand’s handling of these issues suggests that literature furnishes perhaps the best space within which the complex and highly political question of our ties to the past may be most tellingly examined.

Author : Paul Morand
Publisher : Pushkin Collection
ISBN 13 : 190654865X
Total Pages : 145 pages
Book Rating : 4.50/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Tender Shoots written by Paul Morand and published by Pushkin Collection. This book was released on 2012-05-15 with total page 145 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Clarissa, Delphine and Aurora - three alluring and independent young women - are stories set largely in London, a city Morand loved and which continued to fascinate him long after he worked there as an attaché at the French embassy. Composed before and during the first months of the First World War, Paul Morand did not publish these stories until 1921. Stylish, poetic and highly original, Morand's urbane and witty stories came as a bracing and uplifting breath of fresh air on the French literary scene of the 1920s. They made an immediate impact on writers as diverse as Proust, Cocteau and Giraudoux, and paved the way for Morand's illustrious literary career that was to follow. Pushkin Collection editions feature a spare, elegant series style and superior, durable components. The Collection is typeset in Monotype Baskerville, litho-printed on Munken Premium White Paper and notch-bound by the independently owned printer TJ International in Padstow. The covers, with French flaps, are printed on Colorplan Pristine White Paper. Both paper and cover board are acid-free and Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) certified.

Author : Brassaï
Publisher : Bulfinch Press
ISBN 13 : 0821227386
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paris by Night written by Brassaï and published by Bulfinch Press. This book was released on 2001 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Roaming Paris streets by night in the early 1930s, Brassa created arresting images of the city's dramatic nocturnal landscape. First published in French in 1932, this new edition brings one of Brassa's finest works back into print. The back alleys, metro stations, and bistros he photographed are at turns hauntingly empty or peopled by prostitutes, laborers, thugs, and lovers. "Paris by Night" is a stunning portrait of nighttime in the City of Light, as captured by its most articulate observer. 62 photos.

Author : Peggy Montana Baum
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 102 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul Morand written by Peggy Montana Baum and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Kimberly Philpot van Noort
Publisher : Rodopi
ISBN 13 : 9789042013766
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.61/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Paul Morand written by Kimberly Philpot van Noort and published by Rodopi. This book was released on 2001 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Darling of the Jazz Age, the globe-trotting diplomat and acclaimed writer Paul Morand and his literary and political careers underwent a radical shift following his collaboration with the Vichy government during the Occupation of France. Abandoning the terse, glittering portraits of the contemporary era that had garnered him early fame, he turned to the past and to historical fiction, biography and autobiography.Paul Morand: The Politics and Practice of Writing in Post-War France, the first full-length study of Morand in English and the first ever of his post-war works, traces Morand's politically charged explorations of history as he obsessively rewrites the Occupation in historical guise. From Napoleonic Spain to the court of Louis XIV, nineteenth-century California, Revolutionary France and Venice across the ages, Morand probes the limits of historiography and genre as he constructs a curiously Benjaminian model of redemption for his collaborationist heroes. This book analyses Morand's post-war project, placing it within the highly-politicized context of writing during the de Gaullian era. Many issues are at stake in Morand's late oeuvre, from the genres of historical fiction, biography and autobiography, to the very act of historicization itself in the context of the post-war era. Morand's handling of these issues suggests that literature furnishes perhaps the best space within which the complex and highly political question of our ties to the past may be most tellingly examined.

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.35/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Short Story's Mutations from Petronius to Paul Morand written by and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Frances Newman
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Short Story's Mutations from Petronius to Paul Morand written by Frances Newman and published by . This book was released on 1924 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: