Emigré New York: French Intellectuals in Wartime Manhattan, 1940-1944

by Jeffrey Mehlman and Professor Jeffrey Mehlman

New York is fascinating, Paris is fascinating, and Paris-on-the-Hudson, while it lasted, was twice as fascinating

Consider the oddly juxtaposed eminence of those in attendance: Wartime New York was the city where French Symbolism, in the person of Maurice Maeterlinck, came to live out its last productive years; where French surrealism, in the person of Andr Breton, came to survive; and where French structuralism, in the person of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801862868
• ISBN13: 9780801862861
• Release Date: April 2000
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 216 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 9.3"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher