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Noël Riley Fitch is een biografe en historicus die zich toelegt op het belichten van het leven van buitenlandse intellectuelen die Parijs in de eerste helft van de 20e eeuw vormden. Haar werken verkennen consequent het levendige artistieke milieu van de stad, duiken in de geesten en creatieve processen van haar meest invloedrijke figuren. Fitch's schrijven biedt lezers een boeiende reis naar de salons en cafés die moderne kunst en literatuur bevorderden. Ze onderzoekt haar onderwerpen minutieus en levert rijke, boeiende verhalen die de essentie van hun bijdragen vastleggen.
Der Duft frisch gerösteter Kaffeebohnen, gedämpfte Konversation oder stille Lektüre und eine erlesene Einrichtung – die magische Atmosphäre der legendären Kaffeehäuser Europas hat schon Generationen von Künstlern und Schriftstellern inspiriert. Der Band lädt mit stimmungsvollen und opulent bebilderten Porträts ein zu genussvollen Besuchen in über 20 europäischen Metropolen: ins Wiener Café Central, nach Paris ins Deux Magots, in die großen Cafés in Berlin, Budapest und Rom.
Describes the life and career of the French chef and television personality, from her wealthy childhood in California and married years in France to her successful cooking show in the United States
Anais Nin was the ultimate femme fatale, a passionate and mysterious woman, world famous for her extravagant sexual exploits, most notably her simultaneous affairs with Henry and June Miller and her bicoastal bigamous marriages. In the mid-1920s, eager to break the confines of American Victorianism both as an artist and as a woman, Nin traveled to Paris, where she fell in with the legendary artistic and literary circles of the Left Bank."Nin's Diary", published over the years in numerous volumes, has been hailed as a breakthrough document by literary critics and feminists alike. Yet in the published diary, Nin did not lay bare her true self. She instead constructed a carefully stylized image of the woman the world knew as "Anais" while keeping her inner self well hidden. In "Anais", biographer Noel Riley Fitch presents an honest portrait of Nin's passionate, tumultuous, and sometimes bitterly painful life. Fitch reveals, among other things, that behind Nin's coquetry was the desperate yearning of an abused and abandoned child. This, the first biography of Nin, complements, corrects, and demystifies the image that Nin so artfully crafted in her diary.
Noel Riley Fitch has written a perfect book, full to the brim with literary history, correct and whole-hearted both in statement and in implication. She makes me feel and remember a good many things that happened before and after my time. I'm glad to have lived long enough to read it. --Glenway Wescott
