Men and Monuments.
From One Feminist Expatriate To Another
Flanner, Janet. Men and Monuments. New York: Harper & Brothers, 1957.
8vo.; black cloth; multicolored dust-jacket, lightly worn.
First edition. A significant expatriate presentation, inscribed to fellow writer Kay Boyle: To Kay, that good American, democrat of mind and heart, that artist as a writer—with loyal devotion Janet New York March 1957.
Boyle (1903-1992), an American writer who spent nearly twenty years abroad, traveling throughout France, England and Austria, published during the ‘20s and ‘30s alongside Joyce, Pound, William Carlos Williams, and other prominent figures of the literary avant-garde. During the second world war she returned to the States, and continued to publish novels and stories with an increasingly political bent, tackling issues such as civil rights for women and ethnic minorities, and our government’s participation in the Vietnam War.
Men and Monuments is Flanner’s fourth book, published at the midway point during her tenure as the Paris correspondent. In this collection, Flanner turns her pen on a quadruplet of “brilliant and historic lives” – Picasso, Braque, Matisse and Malraux. Her last chapter, “The Beautiful Spoils,” focuses on Adolf Hitler and Hermann Goring’s usurpation of art works in occupied countries, and their eventual return by Allied forces. As the dust-jacket praises, “Janet Flanner brings events to life and analyzes their importance with a conclusiveness, lucidity and brilliance which rank her among the foremost writers.”
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