IV. SHARPENING THE SENSES
12. “They Owned Art While We Were Just Full of Dollars”
1. Flanner, Paris Journal, 1944–1955, June 23, 1948, p. 91.
2. Ibid., p. 92.
3. Cazalis, Les mémoires d’une Anne, p. 106.
4. “Nés en 1925,” Les Temps modernes, no. 32, May 1948.
5. “Chief Prophet of Existentialism” by John L. Brown, in New York Times Magazine, February 2, 1947.
6. Art Buchwald, I’ll Always Have Paris (New York: Ballantine, 1996), p. 2.
7. Ibid., pp. 2–9.
8. Ibid.
9. Ibid.
10. Ibid.
11. Wadja was still there when I last checked in the spring of 2016. Art Buchwald went back thirty years later and cried when he saw that it was still run by the same owners. Buchwald, I’ll Always Have Paris, p. 20.
12. Ibid., pp. 2–9.
13. Ibid., p. 34.
14. Abel, Intellectual Follies, p. 106.
15. Ibid.
16. Seaver, Tender Hour of Twilight, pp. 82–90.
17. Ibid., p. 103.
18. Jack Youngerman in interview: Jack Youngerman talks with Collette Robert, Archives of American Art Journal 17, no. 4, 1977.
19. In a letter to Henry Volkening, September 27, 1948. In Saul Bellow: Letters, edited by Benjamin Taylor (New York: Viking, 2010), p. 63.
20. Saul Bellow, “My Paris,” New York Times, March 13, 1983.
21. James Atlas, Saul Bellow: A Biography (New York: Random House, 2000), p. 140.
22. Ibid., p. 139.
23. Julian Behrstock settled in Paris for life and had a three-decade-long career with UNESCO. He entered the Department of Mass Information of UNESCO in 1948 as head of the World Programme for Book Development.
24. Atlas, Saul Bellow, p. 138.
25. Saul Bellow, The Adventures of Augie March (1953; New York: Penguin Books, 2006).
26. Bellow in the New York Times Book Review in 1959, as quoted by Sam Tanenhaus in his review of Zachary Leader’s The Life of Saul Bellow: To Fame and Fortune, published in the New York Times Sunday Book Review on April 27, 2015.
27. Bellow, “My Paris.”
28. Saul Bellow, “The French as Dostoevsky Saw Them,” New Republic, February 23, 2010.
29. Atlas, Saul Bellow, p. 148.
30. Saul Bellow, “A Revolutionist’s Testament,” New York Times, November 21, 1943.
31. Atlas, Saul Bellow, p. 142.
32. On a postcard to Sam Freifeld, quoted in Atlas, Saul Bellow, p. 139.
33. In a letter to Monroe Engel, October 25, 1948. Saul Bellow: Letters, p. 64.
34. Bellow, “The French as Dostoevsky Saw Them.”
35. As Malcolm Cowley described it in Exile’s Return, his memoir of Paris literary life between the wars. Quoted in Atlas, Saul Bellow, p. 137.