![]() They rejected the conformity and consumerism of mainstream American culture and expressed themselves through various forms of art, such as literature, poetry, music, and painting. author Jonathan Littell’s “Les Bienveillantes” (“The Kindly Ones”), a fictional Nazi officer’s account of his barbarous actions in World War Two. Beatniks were members of a social movement in the 1950s and early 1960s who subscribed to an anti- materialistic lifestyle. ![]() The entry to the Drouant restaurant in Paris, where the prize is announced every year, was packed with literary journalists and fans on Monday.īut the 2007 award aroused little of the interest sparked a year earlier by U.S. ![]() Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald lived a glamorous existence in Paris, the Riviera and America before an alcohol-fuelled decline established their place among “the beautiful and the damned” of the 1920s. Scott Fitzgerald and then struggles to exist in the shadow of his success. “Alabama Song” by Gilles Leroy tells the story of Southern Belle Zelda Sayre as she marries the future author of “The Great Gatsby”, F. PARIS (Reuters) - A novel recounting the story of one of American literature’s most famous couples has won France’s top literary prize, the Prix Goncourt, the jury said on Monday. ![]() French author Gilles Leroy (L) and book publisher Isabelle Gallimard pose for the photographers in front of the Drouant restaurant in Paris Novemafter he received the literary Goncourt Prize for his novel "Alabama Song". ![]()
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