by Andrea Weiss · Rowohlt Tb. · tapa blanda · ISBN 9783499222573
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«Paris war eine Frau» is Andrea Weiss's illustrated essay on the women of the Left Bank, published by Rowohlt in paperback (235 pages, in German).
The book reconstructs the network of women who made the Left Bank of Paris a space of creative freedom. Photographs, paintings, drawings and literary fragments trace the portrait of Colette, Djuna Barnes, Gertrude Stein, Romaine Brooks, Marie Laurencin, Bryher, Alice B. Toklas, Gisele Freund and Janet Flanner.
The work appeared as «Paris Was a Woman: Portraits from the Left Bank» (1995); the 1998 German edition, translated by Susanne Goerdt, is rororo 22257. Winner of the Lambda Literary Award.
Recommended for readers of cultural history of Paris, modernism and networks of lesbian and bisexual women creators of the 20th century.
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