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Paul Morand (13 March 1888 – 24 July 1976) was a French author whose short stories and novellas were lauded for their style, wit and descriptive power. His most productive literary period was the interwar period of the 1920s and 1930s.
Paul Morand (born March 13, 1888, Paris, France—died July 24, 1976, Paris) was a French diplomat and novelist whose early fiction captured the feverish atmosphere of the 1920s. Morand joined the diplomatic service in 1912, serving as attaché in London, Rome, Madrid, and Siam (Thailand).
Paul Morand, né le 13 mars 1888 à Paris 8 e et mort le 23 juillet 1976 à Paris 15e 2, est un écrivain, diplomate et académicien français. Ouvertement antisémite et collaborationniste, il est ambassadeur de l' État français de Vichy durant la Seconde Guerre mondiale .
He was the elegant and eloquent spokesman of an age that he and many of his contemporaries believed to be thoroughly rotten, although he somehow excluded himself from the general disintegration. The part played by the myth of decadence (countermyth to that of progress) is central to an understanding of the exemplary fate of Morand.
Paul Morand was a French diplomat, novelist, playwright and poet, considered an early Modernist. He was a graduate of the Paris Institute of Political Studies (better known as Sciences Po).
Paul Morand has 236 books on Goodreads with 5838 ratings. Paul Morand’s most popular book is The Allure of Chanel (Pushkin Collection).
The Living Buddha ( French: Bouddha vivant) is a 1927 novel by the French writer Paul Morand. It tells the story of Jali, the hereditary prince of an East Asian kingdom, who travels to the Europe where he lives as a beggar in London and Paris, before he falls in love with the daughter of a Ku Klux Klan leader and follows her to America.
