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The Paris Diary & the New York Diary 1951-1961

By Ned Rorem

The Paris Diary & the New York Diary 1951-1961 Social Sciences

The Paris Diary & the New York Diary 1951-1961

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When The Paris Diary exploded on the scene in 1966 there had never been a book in English quite like it: Its intimate combination of personal, literary, and social insights was unprecedented. Rorem's self-portrait of the artist as a young man, written between 1951 and 1955, was also a mirror of the times, depicting the now vanished milieu of Cocteau, Eluard, Gide, Landowska, Boulez, the Vicomtesse de Noailles, and others whose paths crossed with Rorem's in such settings as Paris, Morocco, and Italy. The New York Diary, published the following year, pictured the period between 1956 and 1960, when Rorem had returned to America. The diaries marked the beginnings of Gay Liberation, not because Rorem made a special issue of his sexuality, but because he did not; rather, he wrote of his affairs frankly and unashamedly. A casualness informs each sensual entry, and the overall tone is at once bratty and brilliant, insecure and vain, loving and cultured, but, above all, honest and entertaining.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Edition:
1
Number of Pages:
436
Release Date:
1998-03-22
Publication Date:
1998-04-01
Publisher:
Da Capo Press
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0306808382
ISBN13:
9780306808388
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
521 g
Height:
127 cm
Width:
203 cm
Thickness:
26 cm
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