John Glassco Książki

Aubrey Beardsley's unfinished novella from 1895 explores the legendary relationship between Tannhäuser and Venus, unfolding an erotic fantasy. Initially dismissed by critics as an expression of decadent frivolity, the work is now regarded as a significant example of narrative art from the Fin de siècle, reflecting the cultural currents of its time.

Memoirs of Montparnasse is a delicious book about being young, restless, reckless, and without a care in the world. It is also the best and liveliest of the many chronicles of 1920s Paris and the exploits of the lost generation. In 1928, nineteen-year-old John Glassco escaped Montreal and his overbearing father for the wilder shores of Montparnasse. He remained there until his money ran out and his health collapsed, and he enjoyed every minute of his stay. Remarkable for their candor and humor, Glassco’s memoirs have the daft logic of a wild but utterly absorbing adventure, a tale of desire set free that is only faintly shadowed by sadness at the inevitable passage of time.