From Proust’s vices to Fitzgerald’s drunkenness: when no provocation was enough

2023-08-05 04:37:20
The Seine river separates two ways of living Paris. At least that is how it has been understood historically. The ‘rive gauche’ – the left bank, the one to the south – has earned the reputation of being a scoundrel. The artistic explosion of Montparnasse, the echoes of the Latin Quarter, jazz, gatherings… If Paris competed with New York last century for being the cultural capital of the world, it was largely due to the power of what was happening to this river side. “But it doesn’t hurt to know that, for a long time, its undisputed center was the right bank of the Seine,” writes Giuseppe Scaraffia in ‘The Other Half of Paris’ (Peripheral). On that other side of the river are the Royal Palace, the… See More
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