CONTENTS

Title Page

Copyright Notice

Dedication

Acknowledgments

Epigraph

Chronology

Cast of Characters

Map: Paris Left Bank

Introduction

I. WAR WAS MY MASTER

1. The Fall

2. The Choice

3. The Fight

4. The Desire

II. MODERN TIMES

5. A Philosophy of Existence

6. Lust and Emancipation

7. A Third Way

III. THE AMBIGUITIES OF ACTION

8. How Not to Be a Communist?

9. Love, Style, Drugs, and Loneliness

10. Action and Dissidence

11. “Paris’s Gloom Is a Powerful Astringent”

IV. SHARPENING THE SENSES

12. “They Owned Art While We Were Just Full of Dollars”

13. Stimulating the Nerves

14. Anger, Spite, and Failure

15. Vindicated

16. Farewells and a New Dawn

Photographs

Notes

Index

Also by Agnès Poirier

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