Volume 23, Number 2 · February 19, 1976
Looking for the Lost Generation
By Virgil Thomson
Published in Paris: American and British Writers, Printers, and Publishers in Paris, 1920-1939
by Hugh Ford, with a foreword by Janet Flanner
Macmillan, 453 pp., $14.95
In France the 1920s are known as l'époque. The Thirties, less glamorous artistically, though grander far in a destructive way, are called simply les années trente. Both are nevertheless a part of the twenty-year armistice during which Europe and America prepared themselves for going on with the World War. And their artistic history, though it fluttered a bit with the financial tremors of 1929, is a continuous one.
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