Exile's Return
豆瓣
A Literary Odyssey of the 1920s
Malcolm Cowley
简介
The adventures and attitudes shared by the American writers dubbed "the lost generation", are brought to life in this book of prose works. Feeling alienated in the America of the 1920s, Fitzgerald, Crane, Hemingway, Wilder, Dos Passos, Cowley and others "escaped" to Europe, as exiles.
contents
Introduction
Suggestions for Further Reading
A Note on the Text
EXILE’S RETURN
Prologue: The Lost Generation
I. MANSIONS IN THE AIR
1. Blue Juniata
2. Big-Town High School
3. Apprentice of the Arts
4. American College, 1916
5. Ambulance Service
II. WAR IN BOHEMIA
1. The Long Furlough
2. The Greenwich Village Idea
3. The League of Youth
4. The French Line Pier, 1921
III. TRAVELLER’S CHEQUE
1. Valuta
2. Historical Parallel
3. Transatlantic Review
4. Form and Matter
5. Rumors of Home
IV. PARIS PILGRIMAGES
1. Examination Paper
2. Readings from the Lives of the Saints
3. Paris-Express
V. THE DEATH OF DADA
1. A Brief History of Dada
2. Discourse over a Grave
3. Case Record
4. Significant Gesture
VI. THE CITY OF ANGER
1. The French Line Pier, 1923
2. Women Have One Breast
3- Manhattan Melody
VII. THE AGE OF ISLANDS
1. Connecticut Valley
2. Charlestown Prison
3. The Roaring Boy
4. No Escape
VIII. ECHOES OF A SUICIDE
1. Letter Left on a Dressing Table
2. City of the Sun
3. The Revolution of the Word
4. To Die at the Right Time
Epilogue: New Year’s Eve
Appendix: Years of Birth
Editorial Appendices
Appendix A: Epilogue to the 1934 Edition of Exile’s Return
Appendix B: A Selective Chronology of Publications and Events Surrounding Exile’s Return
Appendix C: “A Tabular History of the Literary Life, 1924 – 1949”
Persons and Books: A Brief Index
