Every Friday, for half a decade beginning in 1909, whenever she was
in Paris, Natalie Clifford Barney hosted the one of the most
brilliant international salons of its day. Barney received in her
home such literary, artistic, musical and intellectual beacons of
the 20th century as James Joyce, Ezra Pound, Gertrude Stein,
Colette, Isadora Duncan, Auguste Rodin, Romaine Brooks, William
Carlos Williams, Paul Valery, Renee Vivian, Edna St. Vincent Millay
and Truman Capote. In 1929, she shared her life, in and out of the
salon, through the publication of the first of three volumes of
reminiscences. Here Barney explores her family tree, chronicles her
friendships and associations through reprinted correspondence and
recreated conversations, and evokes the golden age of her salon in
a gallery of literary portraits. The first half of the volume
features a baker's dozen of the male writers she kneow, from Oscar
Wilde, whom she literally ran into at the age of five, to Pierre
Louys, who encouraged her fledgling writing career and Paul Valery,
an "Immortal" in the Academie Francaise. Barney dedicated the
latter half of her diary to the Academie des Femmes, which she
founded in 1927, as a counterpart to the male bastion of the French
Academy. The book preserves the proceedings of meetings between
such figures as Lucie Delarue-Mardrus, Colette, Gertrude Stein,
Djuna Barnes and Mina Loy, in the distinctive voices of their
speakers.
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