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James Campbell, former editor of the New Edinburgh Review, provides a fresh look at Samuel Beckett's early career; reveals the facts behind the publication of the scandalous best-seller The Story of O and its anonymous author's real life; and tells the complete story of Richard Wright's years in exile. He captures the sense of deliverance that Wright, so accustomed to daily humiliations in his own country, experienced during his sojourn on the Left Bank, where, for the first time in his life, he was treated as a great man of letters. Here, too, are all the circumstances surrounding Wright's mysterious death, which many close to him regarded as suspicious. Exiled in Paris is a book that adds immeasurably to our understanding of a crucial period in the history and literature of the twentieth century.
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Robert North
reviewed Exiles in Paris on August 20, 2008
Exiles in Paris
Although I am not much of a non-fiction reader as of late, books about writers, especially expatriot writers, always make for fun reading. I found the synthesis of lives and ideas in the book to be worthwhile, the narrative well structured and the subject matter more than engaging. The myriad circles orbitting through Paris cafes makes modern life seem dull, while the thought of new genres emerging from the garbled mess of our society today almost impossible. "There is nothing new under the sun", Ecclesiastes exhorts, but we have to remind ourselves that there is always another horizon, another chapter.
While life in Paris from the Lost Generation to the Beat Generation seems so wonderful, we have to be careful lest we fall into the pit of nostalgia, unable to pull our thoughts out of the past. Exiled in Paris made me long for something as great, if not greater, for myself and those people around me, and gave me a sense of surity, I suppose, that there are always newer and newer things over the horizon and that we just have to keep on marching towards it.
Having read a good deal of James Baldwin's essays and fiction, it was good to find more writers, if not of the same calibre, then certainly worth reading in context. Alexander Trocchi and the Olympia Press gang make me feel a sense of duty to continue the pursuit of literature and the rebellion against society. Alas, so much we take for granted today were the taboos and social "ills" of yesterday. What is left? What is there to rail at, but I answer my own question: everything/
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