In the July 1922 Secession 2 magazine, a contributor wrote : "E.E. Cummings. Candidate for the mayoralty of Paris, the present literary capital of America." That says it all !
Between the two world wars, Paris’s cheap franc, flowing alcohol (remember Prohibition ?) and especially artistic & social freedom attracted the (mostly) American writers who made up what Gertrude Stein would call the Lost Generation. Many of them settled, worked and played (hard !) in or near Montparnasse, the Luxembourg Gardens and Saint-Germain-des-Prés.
Join us for one of Lire & Partir’s most popular English-language tours : the meeting in Paris with the "Lost Generation" (Hemingway, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, Barnes…).
Meeting time : 2:00 (sharp) at the statue of Balzac (corner of bd du Montparnasse and bd Raspail).
Reservation required : 08 75 74 36 49 / 06 22 50 71 29 - lire.et.partir@wanadoo.fr 15 € per person
