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Contributor:
Jules Pascin
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Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1907
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In the swirling ballroom, chandeliers poured a corrosive milk over diamond-laced shoulders, and perfumes spun coils of desire between men and languid women swept round by the orchestra. Solal…
Contributor:
Albert Cohen
Places:
Genève, Switzerland
Paris, France
Date:
1930
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I have a friend, a teacher, with shaggy hair black as pitch.
He has a child (his wife is still a child too)
and when he comes home, difficult and gloomy,
she runs to meet him, like a quivering wave:…
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Chaim Grade
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1937
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My father and mother were left alone and sat down for a moment; then my father said: “Well, shall we go up to bed?”
“As you wish, dear, though I don’t feel in the least like sleeping. I don’t know why…
Contributor:
Marcel Proust
Places:
Paris, French Republic
(Paris, France)
Date:
1913