Reviews

The Banquet Years: The Origins of the Avant-Garde in France, 1885 to World War I by Roger Shattuck

lizla's review against another edition

4.0

um, I really enjoyed reading it? I'm as surprised as anyone. I was all, "yeeeaaahh french people and I've heard of some of them, yee haw, I'll read this all the time" and yep.

thecommonswings's review against another edition

4.0

A frustrating book because Shattuck is obviously a very clever man but has this occasional urge to show it, creating some particularly dense and jargon heavy sections: the Apollinaire particularly suffers from this, being hard to really appreciate as Shattuck basically gives in to full on jargon, leaving any sense of accessibility trailing in its wake