DIPLOMAT WRITER AND POET traveller and socialite friend of Proust Giraudouxand Malraux Paul Morand was out of the most original writers of the twentiethcentury.... » 

DIPLOMAT WRITER AND POET traveller and socialite friend of Proust Giraudouxand Malraux Paul Morand was out of the most original writers of the twentiethcentury. He was French literatures globetrotter and his delightfulautobiography is far from being yet another account of a writers life. Insteadit is a poetic evocation of certain scenes among Morands rich and variedencounters and experience filtered through the one constant in his life theone place to which he would always return Venice. «