Herbert Lottmann

The Left Bank of Paris was the window on the world in a time when one could witness Ilya Ehrenburg giving voice to his ideologies, or Arno Breker, the German sculptor, escorting Adolf Hitler on a tour of the city; when the careers of Simone de Beauvoir and Jean-Paul Sartre bloomed and flourished; when Henry Miller found the threat of global war merely a nuisance that interfered with his life and work.

The author Herbert Lottmann, whose biography of Camus was hailed as 'brilliant and absorbing', captures both the human and the intellectual drama of this period in a detailed and engrossing chronicle that is a monument of spirited and graceful scholarship.

ISBN 1-870495-18-7   £16.95