Talk:Yellow Tapers for Paris

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<Both writers were expatriates living in Paris at the same time (sometime in the early 1920s until the Nazi invasion). Both were successful writers, and lived in a place, Paris, during a time when writers were greatly celebrated -- "The Lost Generation." It's not hard to imagine that one or both of them could have crossed paths with some of the literary notables living there during that period (Henry Miller, Ernest Hemingway, Ford Madox Ford, Lytton Strachey, Edith Sitwell, F. Scott Fitzgerald, T. S. Eliot, Ezra Pound, Edith Wharton, Gertrude Stein, etc.).>

ALL of the mentioned literary notables are American. Didn't France have writers of its own? Jean-Paul Sartre springs to the mind. Ignazio Silone, an Italian novelist, was also in France then, and so Vladimir Nabokov. I bet there were also German, Spanish and British writers.

Why was it especially important for Irène Némirovsky and Bruce Marshall to meet just American writers in Paris?

I'm going to integrate rather than erase the list, but I do question the relevance of such a list even with many more integrations. Perhaps the whole remark about the Lost Generation should be dispensed with as POV.

On second thoughts, I've erased the list. Although the Americans listed are in fact great writers, it's preposterous to wonder if a French writer and a Scottish one might have met them. Paris contained lots of other important writers, most of them French, and no influence of American fiction writing is apparent in Nemirovsky's work. (Don't know about Marshall.)