Tears in the Café Select
Christopher Prendergast, 9 March 1995
Paris Interzone: Richard Wright, Lolita, Boris Vian and Others on the Left Bank 1946-1960
by James Campbell.
Secker, 305 pp., £20, September 1994,0 436 20106 2 Show More
by James Campbell.
Secker, 305 pp., £20, September 1994,
Foreign Correspondent: Paris in the Sixties
by Peter Lennon.
Picador, 220 pp., £16.99, April 1994,0 330 31911 6 Show More
by Peter Lennon.
Picador, 220 pp., £16.99, April 1994,
The Good Ship Venus: The Erotic Voyage of the Olympia Press
by John deSt Jorre.
Hutchinson, 332 pp., £20, September 1994,0 09 177874 3 Show More
by John deSt Jorre.
Hutchinson, 332 pp., £20, September 1994,
“... Press. Girodias is one of the major characters in Campbell’s story, and the major character of John deSt Jorre’s preposterously indulgent narrative of what he calls ‘the erotic voyage of the Olympia Press’. Girodias was a publisher not only of the forbidden avant garde, but also of pornography. The ... ”
