Exiled in Paris - Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett and Others on the Left Bank - James Campbell.pdf

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i
n
the
spring
of
1946,
the
black
American
novelist
Richard
at
the
rue
Wright
presented
himself
de
Fleurus
apartment
of
Gertrude
Stein
—
a
meeting
that
symbolized
the
passing
of
one
generation
of
writers
in
Paris
with
the
birth
of
another.
Opening
with
this
moment
and
ending
with
the
death
of
Wright
fourteen
years
later,
Exiled
in
Paris
celebrates
the
spirit
of
those
years,
"the
claim
to
freedom
racism,
—
from
from
sexual
restraint,
the
frenzy
of
anticommunism,
freedom
from
conventional
ethics
and
conventional
opinion."
are
Here
the
eclectic
personalities
who
fueled
the
literary
and
philosophical
dramas
of
the
period:
James
Baldwin,
the
brilliant
American
novelist;
Alexander
Trocchi,
a
in
literary
novelist,
Scotsman
with
great
influence
Paris;
Boris
Vian,
French
engineer,
chansonnier,
and
jazz
musician
who
passed
as
an
American
Negro;
and
Maurice
Girodias,
publisher
of
the
Olympia
Press,
whose
cata-
logue
placed
written-to-order
pornography
next
to
such
classics
as
Lolita
and
Naked
Lunch.
James
Campbell,
former
editor
of
the
New
Edinburgh
Review,
provides
a
fresh
look
at
Samuel
Beckett's
early
career;
reveals
the
facts
behind
the
publication
of
the
scandalous
best-
seller
The
Story
of
life;
O
and
its
anonymous
author's
real
and
tells
the
complete
story
exile.
of
Richard
Wright's
years
in
He
cap-
tures
the
sense
of
deliverance
that
Wright,
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