Morand, Paul

Morand joined the diplomatic service in 1912, serving as attach� in London, Rome, Madrid, and Siam (Thailand). In his early fiction, Ouvert la nuit (1922; Open All Night), Ferm� la nuit (1923; Closed All Night), and Lewis et Ir�ne (1924; Lewis and Irene), he borrowed the cinematic techniques of rapid scene changing and transported the reader