![]() ![]() The first three chapters were composed in the latetwenties in France, and the rest was written with the aid of notes in a Montreal hospital bed in 1932-33 where the author was precariously ill with TB, a direct result of his ebullient months in Montpamasse and his subsequent nesting in Spain with Mrs. Although published only in 19'70., Glassco's book on the twenties is a contemporary document. ![]() Basking in the senseof freedom bequeathed by Moore's book, Glassco writes with equal candour that "the best rule of conduct is impulse., not reason." Although Glassco claims to have patterned his book after Moore 1 s, the final effect ofthe Memoirs is one of firmer structuring than in Moore's rather digressivework, though it is less of a portrait of the artist than Moore's is. "My soul, so far as I understand it, has very kindly taken colour and form from the many various modes of life that self-will and an impetuous temperament have forced me to indulge in." This mellow rationale from GeorgeMoore's Confessions of a Young Man served as the point of departure for John Glassco's Memoirs of Montparnasse. ![]() Toronto and New York: Oxford University Press, 1970. Memoirs of Montparnasse, introduction by Leon Edel. John Glassco in Montpamasse: The Twenties Again ROSS LABRIE John Glassco. ![]() In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content: ![]()
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