“Plaisir D'Amour: An Erotic Memoir of Paris in the 1920s” by Anne-Marie Villefranche

This book was pretty much in the nude once I started reading it. It gradually followed a memoir that had many mini stories integrated into each chapter, each one giving more and more interesting details about life in Paris within the era that was incredibly liberating. Since this book was written by a well known young French widow who later remarried (1899-1980), these stories were fictionalized episodes, written in the third person, with all the names changed, Even with the pure sense of the 1920s, these happened to most likely be the author's fantasies about her assorted siblings and siblings in law who commit adultery in the most predictable places you can expect someone to get caught in, creating the characters personality to not care about anything but their self satisfaction. Aside from standard seductions, there's a lesbian sequence, a Swedish masseur, a sinning priest, and a couple of chapters devoted to Marquis de Sade, whom happens to become one of the main characters. The sexual seductions are graphic, though cut off when things that can happen later on, are left to your imagination. The sexual seduction scenes seen throughout the book are part of the theme that makes it more liable to know what exactly was happening during the 1920's when life was expressing ones self and having freedom.

Paris 1920's Image Exposition

“Hemingway's France: Images of the Lost Generation” by Winston S. Conrad

This book was very appealing to me in a sense that it gave me the answer to what my perception of Paris in the 1920s was really seen as. In this book, I happened to have created this sort of theme that I collected throughout the book. It’s mainly based on a well-known author whom I’m really curious to read about, as well as find out how he is known to have defined France in the 1920s, and people just can’t seem to describe France alone without mentioning his name. According to the reviews that I’ve read recommending this book, they find it filled with history and culture that cultivates the sense of that era and gets in on details about Hemingway being involved in WW2 as a soldier as well as being a writer. His story just seems so amazing. I’m already getting anxious to read what Hemingway has to showcase as “The biggest star of the 20th century literature.”

1920's Map

This map shows the approximate cities and popular places in Paris, which the authors visited or mostly have lived by.

Expatriate Paris: A Cultural and Literary Guide to Paris of the 1920s

this book has been super influential because of its overall interest in the depth of the life style in which people in Paris lived. From chapter to chapter it has constantly made me gain more knowledge and experience the culture that Paris had to offer during the times of the 1920s. It recreates important events in Paris which were considered the mark of history, and where great authors and artists came together to be recognized all throughout Paris. This novel really grabbed my attention because it showed authenticity in the way the author created scenes where you almost felt like you were breathing the same air the authors were at the time. I love to have found this particular writing style which has inspired me to be more creative and detailed with the stories that I tell from others perspectives. This book conveys a more surprisingly real and detailed style with true facts that occurred during this era, which I think is what I needed in order to imagine myself living in that time to understand it more thoroughly. I truly would recommend this book to other people whom are interested in traveling into a new world of cultural art, wealth, and tourism. I have also recognized the author’s way of “keeping it real” where he talks about topics that were common back in the twenties such as music in Paris, Russian immigration, lesbianism, the effect of rich Americans on Paris, and many others they discussed that made me find the book even more interesting and satisfied to have read.