Le Paris Gai by Robert Olorenshaw, Alexandrines editor

We are pleased to announce the publication of a new title in our Paris des écrivains collection: Le Paris Gai by Robert Olorenshaw. A work full of amusing and not-so-amusing anecdotes but also serious analyses of writers' role and the importance of their contribution to the debate on male and female homosexuality.  Le Paris Gai takes readers from the heady fin-de-siècle days of Paris Lesbos up to post-1968 emancipation and the writings of Roland Barthes (whom the author knew) and Michel Foucault.
In addition to Proust, Gide and Colette, the authors discussed include native English speakers such as Oscar Wilde, Nathalie Barney, Renée Vivien, Gertrude Stein and Alice B Toklas.

Robert Olorenshaw is British and has lived in Paris for over forty years. He has a doctorate in semiology and has writen extensively on linguistic and literary subjects, He is the co-author of Le Petit Larousse des symboles and of a book on Frankenstein and Dracula.