Paris in the Fifties
I don't know why I bought this book. I'm not a francophile. It's an okay book. Faintly annoying because he'll punctuate a paragraph with a phrase in French. And I don't speak French. And I don't drink wine so that whole section is lost on me. I read about the author and he wrote a book on Vietnam and I like his writing enough to maybe read that book.
You know, I was wrong. This book has stayed in my head which is usually the sign that I enjoyed the book. I did have to skip a lot of details that were things like lists of writers, lists of philosophers, etc., but it does a great job of setting the stage that was post-War Paris. Their complicated history, politics ... their socialist tendencies and their economic problems. It makes me want to read more about that period.
