Paul Brody > Quotes

“Pablo Picasso rode on the crest of the Modern Art wave. Several”
― Paul Brody, The Real Midnight In Paris: A History of the Expatriate Writers in Paris That Made Up the Lost Generation

“The overall climate meant that young artists pushing the limits of their craft were locked out of the establishment.”
― Paul Brody, The Real Midnight In Paris: A History of the Expatriate Writers in Paris That Made Up the Lost Generation

“The war was undoubtedly the most profound and inescapable influence on writers in the 1920s. But it was far from the only influence. Social, political and aesthetic developments were percolating throughout the first part of the 20th century. In Paris,”
― Paul Brody, The Real Midnight In Paris: A History of the Expatriate Writers in Paris That Made Up the Lost Generation

“Young men who had fought for an uncertain cause felt equally uncertain about their place in modern America.”
― Paul Brody, The Real Midnight In Paris: A History of the Expatriate Writers in Paris That Made Up the Lost Generation

“the Lost Generation was unafraid to take risks.”
― Paul Brody, The Real Midnight In Paris: A History of the Expatriate Writers in Paris That Made Up the Lost Generation

“The Great War (1914-1918) – no one knew then it would be the first of two – transformed the world in ways that no one fully understood at the time. Perceptive individuals shared the not quite intelligible feeling that something had gone terribly wrong and would never again be right. The Great War was the first war in history to be fought primarily by the middle class.”
― Paul Brody, The Real Midnight In Paris: A History of the Expatriate Writers in Paris That Made Up the Lost Generation