Riparian
Douglas Johnson, 15 July 1982
The Left Bank: Writers in Paris, from Popular Front to Cold War
by Herbert Lottman.
Heinemann, 319 pp., £12.50, May 1982,0 434 42943 0 Show More
by Herbert Lottman.
Heinemann, 319 pp., £12.50, May 1982,
“... by the exiled Madame de Staël, that it was this street that she missed most of all – whilst Robert Brasillach lived in the more elongated ugliness of the Rue Lecourbe, not far removed. But when they were in Spain, at the time of the Civil War, they were on different sides, and the books they wrote about the war were in sharp contrast one to the ... ”