{"title":"Herbert R. Lottman","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"a-rive-gauche","title":"The Left Bank","description":"When Ernest Hemingway wrote that Paris was a party, he was referring, above all, to the Left Bank. The tiny neighborhood between the Seine and Montparnasse was for a long time—in the 1930s and 1940s—the intellectual capital of the world. It was there, in the cramped confines of café terraces and a handful of bookstores, publishers, and studios, that many of the best writers and intellectuals of the time worked, met, agreed, and disagreed. From London to New York, from Moscow to Barcelona, people sided with Gide or Malraux, Sartre or Koesler. In THE LEFT BACK, Herbert R. Lottman recaptures the intensity of this environment and recreates the most famous years of those surroundings. After extensive historical research, drawing on numerous testimonies, the author proposes a living sociology of a place where the exercise of thought and freedom of ideas were practiced. The Left Bank gained an aura of a hub of engaged culture when, in the mid-1930s, in the midst of the economic depression that marked the interwar period, the Surrealists began frequenting the Deux Magots, the café that became one of the meeting points for artists in Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Soon writers, poets, editors, and journalists would arrive – and the Left Bank became the party alluded to by the American novelist. The universe recreated by the author goes far beyond the romantic, bohemian, and avant-garde Left Bank forever etched in the affective memory even of those who have never strolled its narrow streets. Far from reductionist labels, the multifaceted characters gain a less idealized, more human dimension. Paris under Nazi occupation is the main stage where this reshaping takes place. It is there, for example, that the young Simone de Beauvoir flirts with the idea of having her first novel awarded by a literary academy dominated by collaborationists. It is also there that a Francophile Nazi, Gerhard Heller, moves within the cracks of power to defend members of the Resistance. As journalist and writer Oscar Pilagallo, who wrote the book's blurb, observes, \"they are counterpoints to a familiar story. And they demonstrate that, beyond the edifying narratives, there is always a more complex—and surprising—reality.\"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159275749628,"sku":"9788503009621","price":84.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/14a7b81df20ca878c87cd1f6f6d48c43.jpg?v=1778321734"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/herbert-r-lottman.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}