Simone de Beauvoir en Sartre wilden naar de Sahara
Algerije is in deze periode een Franse kolonie, niet lang erna zal de Algerijnse oorlog uitbreken. Zij had het al 2 keer geprobeerd, maar in lukte het, zij kon 2 zitplaatsen voor hen bespreken bij vrachtauto's
Simone schrijft: De stad was mijn vasthoudendheid waard. Ze vormde een kubistisch schilderij van een prachtige opbouw, witte en okergele vierhoeken, blauwig in het felle licht, stapelden zich piramide gewijs op. Dwars op de top van een heuvel stond een bouwsel van terracotta, enorm, buitensporig en trots, de moskee.
Simone: deze morgen toen de vrachtwagen de rotsenrij die de Vallei afsluit over was, steeg er een enorm rode zon op. Deze zon blijft in mijn herinnering geëtst als een symbool van gelukkige uren.
Ze rijden door de Sahara
Simone: De laatste dagen reden we door langs de voet van gigantische citadellen en cyclopische muren, zwart als lavasteen. De aarde was veranderd in een maanlandschap.
Between the Wars, Paris was home to the major French publishing houses and literary journals, and of France's most important writers.Marcel Proustwas living at 102 Boulevard Haussmann, editing his most important work,In Search of Lost Time, which he had begun in 1909 but was not finished by the time of his death in 1922. It was finally published in 1929.Anatole Francewon the Nobel Prize for Literature for his novels and poetry in 1921; the philosopherHenri Bergson, won the Nobel Prize in 1927. Paris was the home ofColette, who lived in an apartment in thePalais Royal; of novelistAndré Gide, and of the playwright-author-filmmakerJean Cocteau.
It was also home to a large community of expatriate writers from around the world. Ernest Hemingway, hired as a foreign correspondent for the Toronto Star, moved to Paris with his first wife Hadley in 1922 and made his first residence in a small upstairs apartment at 74 rue du Cardinal Lemoine. He remained until 1928, when he left with his second wife, Pauline. While there he wrote and published his first novel, The Sun Also Rises. Others in the literary expatriate community included the poet Ezra Pound, the writer and art patron Gertrude Stein, and the English poet, critic novelist and editor Ford Madox Ford.
In 1920, the Irish author James Joyce received an invitation from the poet Ezra Pound to spend a week with him in Paris. He ended up remaining for twenty years, writing two of his major works, Ulysses and Finnegans Wake. After the war began, in late 1940, he moved to Zurich, where he died. The Russian émigré Vladimir Nabokov lived in Paris from 1937 until 1940, when he left for the United States. Eric Arthur Blair, better known under his pen name George Orwell, lived in 1928 and 1929 on the rue du Pot de Fer in the fifth arrondissement, where he worked as a dishwasher in a Paris restaurant, an experience he immortalized in Down and Out in Paris and London.
An important meeting point for expatriate writers was the bookstore Shakespeare and Company (not to be confused with the modern bookstore of that name near Place Saint-Michel), first located at 8 rue Dupuytren from 1919 to 1922, and then from 1922 to 1940 at 12 rue de l'Odeon. It was run by the American Sylvia Beach. Hemingway first met Ezra Pound here, and Beach published Jame's Joyce's Ulysses, which was banned in Britain and the United States.
Pablo Picasso was perhaps the most famous artist in Paris, but he shared the spotlight with a remarkable group of others, including the Romanian sculptor Constantin Brâncuși, the Belgian René Magritte, the Italian Amedeo Modigliani, the Russian émigré Marc Chagall, the Catalan and Spanish artists Salvador Dali, Joan Miró, Juan Gris, and the German surrealist and Dadaist Max Ernst. Several major artistic movements flourished in Paris at this time, including Cubism, Surrealism, and Art Deco. The American art patron Gertrude Stein, resident in Paris, played an important role in encouraging and buying works of Picasso and other artists of the period.
