The Diary of A.O. Barnabooth (Recovered Classics)

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Summary: Larbaud: Cosmopolitan Visionary
Review: Valery Larbaud sums up the entire of pre-War generation of "cosmopolitan" writers, from Joyce and Pound to Paul Morand and Apollinaire. The European wanderings by this eccentric American millionaire represent a new vision of places and cities, unheard-of in the history of French literature. Anyone looking for a vicarious trip on the Orient Express will enjoy criss-crossing the contient with this consumate traveler and revel with the characters with whom he resides (albeit temporarily). Landscapes, love and loneliness are all transmitted through a supple, quick prose which at once seizes reality in its immediacy and filters the world through Barnabooth's literary consciousness. Larbaud's alter ego carves out his own place on the cultural map of Europe and represents one of the major literary achievements of the first part of the 20th Century in the French tradition. Read Larbaud and die. See Naples later.

Rating:
Summary: Larbaud: Cosmopolitan Visionary
Review: Valery Larbaud sums up the entire of pre-War generation of "cosmopolitan" writers, from Joyce and Pound to Paul Morand and Apollinaire. The European wanderings by this eccentric American millionaire represent a new vision of places and cities, unheard-of in the history of French literature. Anyone looking for a vicarious trip on the Orient Express will enjoy criss-crossing the contient with this consumate traveler and revel with the characters with whom he resides (albeit temporarily). Landscapes, love and loneliness are all transmitted through a supple, quick prose which at once seizes reality in its immediacy and filters the world through Barnabooth's literary consciousness. Larbaud's alter ego carves out his own place on the cultural map of Europe and represents one of the major literary achievements of the first part of the 20th Century in the French tradition. Read Larbaud and die. See Naples later.