Before Ford Madox Ford came along with the transatlantic review and all the opportunities that offered. Before John Dos Passos, Henry Miller, Anaïs Nin. A conjunction of literary influences was about to take place which would forever change the topography of American literature."Īnd that was before Zelda and F Scott Fitzgerald breezed into town. None of these literary giants knew that Ernest Hemingway was in town, but before the year was out they would know him well. Less than two blocks from the Hemingway's hotel, James Joyce was dressing to attend a party at Sylvia Beach's bookstore, Shakespeare and Company, where he would celebrate the final revisions to his manuscript Ulysses. Eventually Eliot would call it The Waste Land. Close by Ezra Pound was reading through a bit of manuscript left him by a young friend with exhausted nerves, Tom Eliot, on his way to a rest cure in Lausanne. A five-minute walk down Boulevard Raspail, Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas were planning their Christmas meal. "Less than two blocks from Hemingway's table, what was left of Charles Baudelaire and Guy de Maupassant lay beneath stone memorials in the Montparnasse cemetery.
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