… UD helped Jerzy Soltan write an essay of Le Corbusier reminiscences for this book (Soltan, Mr UD’s father, was a Corbu disciple).
English was Soltan’s fourth language. His son’s girlfriend was just the person to turn Soltan’s rather raggedy prose (full of exclamation marks !!! and ellipses ……. ) into something chic.
I loved doing it. The story of Soltan’s discovery of Corbu, and the way Soltan, fresh from six years in a prisoner of war camp, simply appeared at the door of Corbu’s Paris atelier — it’s quite a thing.
The latest big biography of Corbu – Le Corbusier: A Life, by Nicholas Fox Weber – quotes a great deal from that essay, UD‘s pleased to say.
January 8th, 2009 at 8:39AM
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