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.
John Glassco Knihy
15. prosinec 1909 – 29. leden 1981
John Glassco byl kanadský básník, autor pamětí, romanopisec a překladatel. Jeho dílo je ceněno pro jeho brilantní autobiografii, elegantní klasickou poezii, překlady a erotickou tvorbu. Glassco se vyznačoval vytříbeným stylem a klasickou formou, což z něj činí významnou postavu kanadské literatury. Jeho psaní často zkoumalo hlubší lidské emoce a zážitky s jedinečnou citlivostí.
