Paris: Literary Capital of America
This article lists a surprising number of American authors who had all found high levels of productivity in the city […]
1923
Articles from 1923
Mussolini’s Popularity
In this article, famed journalist Anne O’Hare McCormick went to great lengths to explain why the Italian people were so
His Popularity
(NY Times Book Review, 1923)
In the attached article, famed journalist Anne O’Hare McCormick (1880 – 1954) went to great lengths to explain why the Italian people were so coocoo crazy for the rule of Benito Mussolini. At this point he had only been in power for eight months:
“Mussolini has the people hypnotized, but he has been given so much rope that he is sure to hang himself in the end.”
Recalling the ‘Future’ of the Movies
(N.Y. Times Book Review, 1923)
Here is a N.Y. Times review of a volume concerning the origins and future of silent film. It was said that the author was quite good at recalling the genesis of the medium – and he was all wet about its future (silent films would dry up six years after this review appeared).
Fascist Thought in Italian Literature
(NY Times, 1923)
“Fascism, which began in Italy as a political and social force, soon became cultural as well. Already the movement has produced a considerable literature of its own. It is a literature of thews and sinews, of conflict and aspiration: its appeal is to a people awakened to a new consciousness of the possibilities and responsibilities of a life, a people that is confident that it has recovered the elixir of youth and has faith in the future.”
Paris: Literary Capital of America
(NY Times Book Review, 1923)
This article lists a surprising number of American authors who had all found high levels of productivity in the city of Paris, both during the Great War and afterward:
“In Paris the American author seems to get the right perspective of his native land. Three thousand miles away he finds himself better able to interpret or criticize the land of the free. Permeated by the French atmosphere, he suddenly develops a huge interest in America, and this interest, in turn, expresses itself usually in the form of a novel.”
Paris: Literary Capital of America
(NY Times Book Review, 1923)
This article lists a surprising number of American authors who had all found high levels of productivity in the city of Paris, both during the Great War and afterward:
“In Paris the American author seems to get the right perspective of his native land. Three thousand miles away he finds himself better able to interpret or criticize the land of the free. Permeated by the French atmosphere, he suddenly develops a huge interest in America, and this interest, in turn, expresses itself usually in the form of a novel.”
General Helmuth von Moltke
(N.Y. Times Book Review, 1923)
“If ever there was a German who foresaw nothing but defeat and punishment for his native land, even in the days when the great majority of his fellow-countrymen were mad with anticipation of victory and world domination, it was Helmuth von Moltke (1848 – 1916).”
Click here to read a 1922 review of the Kaiser’s war memoir.
Young Picasso
(Vanity Fair Magazine, 1923)
“Upon his first arrival in Paris, Picasso met with success. It was ’99… At that time he had a face of ivory, and was as beautiful as a Greek boy; irony, thought and effort have brought slight lines to the waxen countenance of this little Napoleonic man… At that time, Picasso was living the life of the provincial in Paris… He had won fame there by his portraits of actresses in the public eye. Jeanne Bloch, Otero – all the stars of the Exposition. Those paintings are priceless today; the intelligent museums have bought them.”