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First Quarter, 1999: Volume 2This Quarter's Feature Article
This month we will introduce Dorothy Parker, American born author and political activist. She is best known for her sardonic wit and position as the most famous female member of the Algonquin Round Table. Her verses, which line personal tragedy with humor, are some of the most quoted. This Quarters Abstract...This month's abstracts section features Catnip's poetry. Catnip's poetry will speak to you without reservation about the particular truths of her life. This body of work is remniscent of Leslea Newman's and is just as engaging! Left Bank Notes and Quotes...Albert Camus (1913-1960)The title character of The Stranger is Meursault, who is sentenced to death ostensibly for shooting a man whom he had never met but perhaps more so, it is suggested, for his inability to dissemble, to experience conventional modes of feeling, or to conform to society's requirements. Meursault appears listless, emotionally detached from his uneventful life. "And I, too, felt ready to start life all over again. It was as if that great rush of anger had washed me clean, emptied me of hope, and, gazing up at the dark sky spangled with its signs and stars, for the first time, the first, I laid my heart open to the benign indifference of the universe." Last Update: June 22, 1999 |
Greetings from Natalie Clifford Barney!Welcome to 20 Rue Jacob, Paris France! The year is 1919. The Great War, although ended, is still the centerpiece of conversation. The recent execution of Mata Hari (1917), the Spartacus Uprising in Berlin, Race Riots in Chicago, and violent U.S Steel Worker Strikes are indicators that the new century's tide of global antagonism remains high. This dissension has been captured by the latest wave of artists, writers and musicians. Expressionist painters such as Kokoshka, Munch, Modigliani, Klee, and Schiele have taken visual representation away from the lingering influence of the Romantic Impressionists and have placed the priority of the painting on symbolizations of internal and external conflict. Similar recent and in some cases, highly controversial publications include Winesburg, Ohio, My Antonia, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Cantos 1-3, The Metamorphosis, Renascence and Other Poems, and The Book of Repulsive Women. So, too, the jazz music of Bessie Smith, Ma Rainey and Cole Porter reflect a great departure from the sentimental ballads of Claude DeBussy. Here at 20 Rue Jacob, one of the most talked about American expatriates of the day, has gathered guests to promote Modernist and Feminist thinking while supporting freedom of personal expression through individual creativity. Her name is Natalie Barney, and she will be your host. For the next 60 years she will entertain an impressive array of artists, writers, musicians and eccentrics. As famous visitors, and their works appear, you will have the opportunity to establish external links to your Web Pages and share your thoughts. In order to join the soiree, all you will need to bring with you is an open mind and a clever turn of a phrase!
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