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Being Geniuses Together, 1920-30 Robert McAlmon

Being Geniuses Together, 1920-30 By Robert McAlmon

Being Geniuses Together, 1920-30 by Robert McAlmon


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The writers of this collaborative memoir were living, writing and observing in 1920s Paris, as part of a literary set which included Pound, Hemingway, Stein, Joyce and Eliot. This text chronicles the period as seen through the two authors' eyes - a portrait of their society.

Being Geniuses Together, 1920-30 Summary

Being Geniuses Together, 1920-30 by Robert McAlmon

There is no more exhilarating decade in the history of modern letters than the twenties in Paris. They were all there: Pound, Hemingway, Stein, Joyce, Dos Passos, Fitzgerald, MacLeish, Harry Crosby, H.D., Sinclair Lewis, Mina Loy, T.S. Eliot, Djuna Barnes, Ford Madox Ford, Mary Butts, William Carlos Williams, Sylvia Beach, Katherine Mansfield, Isadora and Raymond Duncan, Alice B. Toklas. Also there were Kay Boyle and Robert McAlmon - living, writing and observing from the inside out, not, as in so many other accounts of these golden years, from the outside looking in. This collaborative memoir began as a book written by McAlmon in 1934. In the late 1960s, Kay Boyle revised and edited the book and added alternating chapters of her own. The result is a marvellous chronicle of the period as seen through two sets of perceptive eyes.

Being Geniuses Together, 1920-30 Reviews

"This collaboration--posthumous in McAlmon's case--has proved amazingly successful. It gives us pictures of two lives--and many surrounding lives--from different angles, as if they had been taken with a stereoscopic camera. Thereby it gives us an impression of depth and substantiality that have been lacking in other memoirs of Paris in the 1920's."--Malcolm Cowley, 'New York Times Book Review'

About Robert McAlmon

Robert McAlmon was essayist, poet, and fiction writer, as well as an influential publisher. His Contact Publishing Company published, among others, William Carlos Williams, Mina Loy, Ernest Hemingway, H.D., and Gertrude Stein. Kay Boyle was an award-winning writer of novels, short stories, poetry, children's books, memoirs, nonfiction, and translations.

Additional information

GOR003728568
9780801855849
0801855845
Being Geniuses Together, 1920-30 by Robert McAlmon
Used - Very Good
Paperback
Johns Hopkins University Press
1997-03-11
408
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This is a used book - there is no escaping the fact it has been read by someone else and it will show signs of wear and previous use. Overall we expect it to be in very good condition, but if you are not entirely satisfied please get in touch with us

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