A Night at the Majestic: Proust and the Great Modernist Dinner Party of 1922
- ISBN-10
- 0571220088
- ISBN-13
- 9780571220083
- Category
- Artists
- Pages
- 358
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2006
- Author
- Richard Peter Treadwell Davenport-Hines
Description
On a night in May 1922, five of the greatest artists of the 20th century sat down to supper: Marcel Proust, James Joyce, Pablo Picasso, Serge Diaghilev and Igor Stravinsky.
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