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"Se siete stanchi dei libri scritti dalle signore scrittrici d'oggigiorno, eccovi un libro scritto da una donna che non fu mai una signora. Per circa dieci anni, come spesso capita, Kiki fu lì lì per essere una regina, ma questo naturalmente è molto diverso dall'essere una signora". Così Ernest Hemingway parla di Alice Prin - meglio conosciuta come Kiki de Montparnasse. Priva di inibizioni, cominciò a dodici anni la carriera di modella. A vent'anni era già una celebrità. A trenta, scrisse queste memorie. Frequentatrice instancabile della vita mondana, divenne amica e confidente di maestri della pittura, scrittori, personaggi come Kisling, Fujita, Soutine, Modigliani, Man Ray, Jean Cocteau, Ernest Hemingway, i dada e i surrealisti... Le sue memorie sono i momenti intimi di quegli anni ruggenti.
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- Pagine: 140
- Data di uscita: 31-03-2016
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Kiki’s Memoirs has an introduction written by Ernest Hemingway — a rare honor. Writes Hemingway, “This is the only book I have ever written an introduction for, and God help me, the only one I ever will… It is written by a woman who, as far as I know, never had a Room of Her Own… you have a book her Leggi tutto
Weighed down by boorish introductions by boorish men. Their inclusion boggles the mind. Kiki is a woman who we know through the filters of other men - why are we mucking up her story & her voice with others?
I heart Kiki. She was a model for Man Ray, Caulder, Modigliani, Foujita, etc.... Ernsest Hemingway writes the forward. What's not to love?
To be read on this song(Kiki's fav song!) Ravel "Ma Mère l'Oye" Beautiful images of Montparnasse: & famous people: and it's queen: will start to live under your eyes! But if you're here for the love story between Man Ray and his muse Kiki, find that she decided to keep everything for herself, as a gem, Leggi tutto
This short (just over 100 pages of Kiki's text) makes a quick read. The prose is so simple, even in translation, that I couldn't help believing that Kiki was telling the truth about her life and the people she knew. And she seems to have known everybody in the arts, literature, and entertainment in
Ever since I read Kiki’s Paris: Artists and Lovers 1900-1930 , I’ve been inspired by the beautiful muse and bon vivant. Against Hemingway’s advice in the introduction (prior to the translation), I did not learn French adequately enough to read it in its original. I believe the translation was true to Leggi tutto
Gina: "You finish that book?" Me: "I mean I think I'm finished with it. Not like, throw it across the room done, but I think it's over?"
A very good memoir from the Queen of Montparnasse. She keeps the tone light and fast, with an undercurrent of just how perilous and harsh and dramatic her life, especially the first eighteen or so years, must have been. Kiki wrote these memoirs in 1929, when she was 28, and appended to them is an in Leggi tutto
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