Roberto Merino: “That Epic Post-French Revolution Is a Dream Incubated on the Left, Which Saw some of that in the Social Explosion”

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In Woody Allen’s film Midnight in Paris, the protagonist walks through the city and gets lost among his old alleys. Without realizing it, he crosses a temporary threshold: he arrives at a party in the 1920s and encounters Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway and Gertrude Stein. Somehow, Roberto Merino’s new book also opens a temporary threshold: the reader enters its pages and suddenly finds himself at a costume party in one of the French mansions…