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Le gai savoir.(Americans in Paris: a Literary Anthology)(Book Review)

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From: The Nation
Date: 20040628
Author:Wineapple, Brenda

AMERICANS IN PARIS: A Literary anthology. Edited by Adam Gopnik. Library of America. 613 pp. $40.

"Paris is a very old story," Henry James wrote in 1878--so old, in fact, that it's hard to write about it without falling into cliches about chestnut trees, couture, freedom and l'amour. But making the subject of writers in Paris--in particular, American writers--a fresh literary experience rather than an old chestnut is exactly what the various authors in the Library of America's marvelous new anthology manage to do.

Called--you've got it--Americans in Paris: A Literary ...

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