Shattuck is able to relay his interests to the layman with a depth and clarity that remains, to this day, inimitable and in charting the origins of the Avant-Garde in France he establishes his vast ambitions for his decorated career that any reader is privileged to bear witness to. Whilst he is regarded as a bit of an old-fashioned intellectual by his contemporaries, including Harold Bloom, his prose glitters with the ever green light of genuine fondness and curiosity. Roger Shattuck’s famous critical treatment of Proust in Proust’s Way is founded in his debut. Shattuck focuses on the careers of Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, and Guillaume Apollinaire, using the quartet as a window into the era as he explores a culture whose influence is at the very foundation of modern art. The definitive chronicle of the origins of French avant-garde literature and art, Roger Shattuck's classic portrays the cultural bohemia of turn-of-the-century Paris who carried the arts into a period of renewal and accomplishment and laid the groundwork for Dadaism and Surrealism.
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