Abstract
The war divided the group of writers at the Villa Seurat of whom Miller, Nin and Durrell were part. They never again met with the same frequency or intensity. But ‘the end of our romantic life’ was not only that kind of parting, but a farewell to ‘heroism and passion’ which, Nin had recorded two years earlier, ‘are vanishing from the world’.2
We all knew we were parting from a pattern of life we would never see again, from friends we might never see again. I knew it was the end of our romantic life.
— Anaïs Nin1
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Cf. J. Pierrot, The Decadent Imagination 1880–1900 (University of Chicago Press, 1981 ) p. 36.
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Pine, R. (1988). Into the Inner Landscape. In: The Dandy and the Herald. Palgrave Macmillan, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-349-08053-3_7
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