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.
Shattuck died in 2005..
His biography of Proust won the National Book Award in 1975.
He is the author of several books of literary criticism as well as several definitive texts on Proust.
He taught at Harvard, the University of Texas, the University of Virginia and Boston University, from which he retired in 1997.
He has been a recipient of both a Fulbright and a Guggenheim grant. at Yale, and was appointed to the Society of Fellows at Harvard.
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He was born in 1923, received his B.
About the Author: Roger Shattuck was a scholar, writer and literary critic, best known for his studies on French literature, culture, and Proust.
Shattuck focuses on the careers of Alfred Jarry, Henri Rousseau, Erik Satie, and Guillaume Apollinaire, using the quartet as window into the era as he exploring 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
