The 2024 Games in Paris, which will commence next July 26, exactly one year from today, are unlikely to feature many of these dramatic madcap dashes against the clock. Overwhelmingly, the venues and facilities that will be used from July 26 through Aug. 11, 2024, are already in existence....
In their works, instead of writing about the polite, well--dressed, grammatically correct middle--class young people who moved in exotic places and remote times, they introduced industrial workers and farmers, ambitious businessmen and vagrants, prostitutes and unheroic soldiers as major characters in...