DIPLOMAT, WRITER AND POET, traveller and socialite, friend of Proust, Giraudoux and Malraux, Paul Morand was out of the most original writers of the twentieth century. He was French literature's globe-trotter, and his delightful autobiography is far from being yet another account of a writer's life. Instead it is a poetic evocation of certain scenes among Morand's rich and varied encounters and experience, filtered through the one constant in his life - the one place to which he would always return - Venice.

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PAUL MORAND was born in Paris in 1888 and after studying at the Ecole des Science politiques he joined the diplomatic corps, serving in London, Rome, Berne and Bucharest. In a long and busy life, he found time to write poetry, novels, short stories and travel books.

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TRANSLATED BY Euan Cameron
Cover illustration by Luca Pagliari
ISBN 1-901285-41-3 • 224pp • £12 / $18