![]() By the time the Memoirs appeared in 1970, the Paris of the early 1920s had become the stuff of legend, and Glassco could comfortably supplement his experiences with legends of his own. ![]() Styling himself a world-weary aesthete with a sparkling past, Glassco was in fact a literary late-bloomer who did not write and publish seriously until the late 1960s. Composed between 19, his letters chronicle a full and interesting life, and culminate in an outlook that is mature, yet dignified rather than dull. ![]() John Glassco described Memoirs of Montparnasse, the book for which he is best known, as a record of “the years in which really lived-before the onset of death or the inevitable dullness of a mature outlook.” The reader of this collection may beg to differ. ![]()
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