Published by St. Martin''s Press in 1998, this collection of essays edited by J. Gerald Kennedy and Jackson R. Bryer, hit
the market at the end of a decade that saw an unprecedented surge of critical interest in the lost
generation. The editors collected
scholarly articles that crown previous explorations with quality polar criticism on the perceptions of Paris as both a liberal, wastelanding milieu and a thriving, inspiring, life-affirming cultural oasis. The essays in French Connections provide not only a natural-sized canvas of the geo-spiritual Parisian landscape of the 1920s, but also in-depth analyses of the French influences on the two most prominent writers of the lost generation, Hemingway and Fitzgerald. This book is a valuable resource for a scholarly issues such as American identity, liberalism and religiosity, all tackled by the essays authors from an international cultural context.