Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. Introduction 1
5. SECTION I – BEGINNINGS
6. Introduction 13
7. 1 Camondo’s Way 16
8. 2 A Sephardic Family 35
9. 3 The Boulissa’s Pilgrimage 47
10. SECTION II – LITERARY PORTRAITS
11. Introduction 53
12. 4 Italo Svevo 57
13. 5 Western and Eastern Themes in the Poetry of Yunus Emre 73
14. 6 The Poetry of Constantine Cavafy 92
15. 7 Fernando Pessoa, Outsider among English Poets 99
16. SECTION III – EUROPEAN RECONSTRUCTION AND DECOLONIZATION
17. Introduction 111
18. 8 The Destruction of the Berlin Museums 116
19. 9 A Capital without a Country 123
20. 10 Letter from Germany 129
21. 11 The Homing Pigeons of Algiers: A Sociology of Rebellion in France 140
22. 12 On the Horizon: The Criminal as Public Servant 151
23. SECTION IV – THE AGE OF IMPROVIDENCE
24. Introduction 159
25. 13 Self and Society 164
26. 14 Tea at Lady Ottoline’s 177
27. 15 The Homophobia of André Breton 184
28. 16 Cruising with Hart Crane 192
29. 17 Portrait of Alias, or the Real Life of Maurice Sachs 201
30. Notes 215
31. Works Cited 235
32. Credits 237
33. Index 239