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Rumpus Book ClubThe Letters of Samuel Beckett
“Footloose artists like Beckett tended to keep an eye on exchange rates. The cheap franc after World War I had made France an attractive destination. An influx of foreign artists, including Americans living on dollar remittances, turned Paris of the 1920s into the headquarters of international Modernism. When the franc climbed in the early 1930s the transients took flight, leaving only diehard exiles like James Joyce behind.”
J.M. Coetzee reviews The Letter of Samuel Becket: Volume 1, 1929-1940.
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