Le Passant du Bowery

WRITTEN IN FRENCH

222 Bowery, southeast Manhattan. The address was said to have been housed at Fernand Léger's workshop during the war. Mark Rothko painted decisive canvases for the rest of his work. In the 1960s, the poet John Giorno organized extravagant evenings where bohemianism was hurrying around...

WRITTEN IN FRENCH

222 Bowery, southeast Manhattan. The address was said to have been housed at Fernand Léger's workshop during the war. Mark Rothko painted decisive canvases for the rest of his work. In the 1960s, the poet John Giorno organized extravagant evenings where bohemianism was hurrying around William Burroughs. The beat Generation mage, after years of wandering, had settled in the sun's no window-named the Bunker.
The 222 relives here as the wanderings of the passerby of the Bowery, an enigmatic and fascinated narrator who, room by room, floor after floor, takes us with a fiery nostalgia in the breathless sweetness of the nights and days of this unrecognized and mythical building.

French
288 pages

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