The Collected Stories of Louis Auchincloss
“In the 1950s this post had been regarded as a sinecure, to be held by a semiretired partner with a taste for Gallic life and a secretary who could get theater tickets for traveling clients. But with the boom of American investment in Europe all this had changed, and by 1972 the position required an expert in international corporation law. Leslie Carter not only fulfilled this requirement; he had always believed, with Oscar Wilde, that when good Americans die, they go to Paris.
He had originally... wanted to be a writer. As a Yale undergraduate he had majored in English, specializing in the “lost generation.” The Paris of Hemingway and Fitzgerald had seemed to him a paradise in Technicolor. Like so many of his contemporaries, he had interpreted the postwar malaise of these expatriate novelists, their disillusionment and mordant cynicism, their haunting doubts as to their masculinity, as mere romantic poses adding the final titillation to a world that seemed as colorful as modern America was dull.MoreLess
He had originally... wanted to be a writer. As a Yale undergraduate he had majored in English, specializing in the “lost generation.” The Paris of Hemingway and Fitzgerald had seemed to him a paradise in Technicolor. Like so many of his contemporaries, he had interpreted the postwar malaise of these expatriate novelists, their disillusionment and mordant cynicism, their haunting doubts as to their masculinity, as mere romantic poses adding the final titillation to a world that seemed as colorful as modern America was dull.MoreLess
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