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In 1925 Flanner began her New Yorker "Letter from Paris," from which most of the pieces in this collection are drawn. They give an incomparable view of French life before World War II. Edited by Irving Drutman; Index.
A view of French life in the years between the electrifying debut of Josephine Baker and the evacuation of Paris at the outbreak of war.
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Richard Hull
reviewed Paris Was Yesterday on January 31, 2016
Paris Was Yesterday
A cultural history of Paris from 1925-1939 by someone who apparently feels nothing but spite and scorn for almost every topic she chooses to write about. Well, it's finally happened: we've found writing too cynical even for me. I enjoy a good snark, but reading this book was frankly exhausting. (Flanner, I think, even eventually became exhausted: the collection does mellow a bit as it goes along.)
Then there's this description of Josephine Baker:
"She has, alas, almost become a little lady. Her caramel-colored body, which overnight became a legend in Europe, is still magnificent, but it has become thinned, trained, almost civilized. Her voice, especially in the vo-deo-do's, is still a magic flute that hasn't yet heard of Mozart -- though even that, one fears, will come with time. There is a rumor that she wants to sing refined ballads; one is surprised that she doesn't want to play Othello. On that lovely animal visage lies now a sad look, not of captivity, but of dawning intelligence."
Ew. Ew ew ew ew ewwwwwwww.
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