From the beginning of the last century café de la Rotonde, le Dome café and some other cafes in Montparnasse in Paris played an important role in many famous writers’ and artists’ life. Especially during twenties and thirties such prominent figures as Ernest Hemingway, Gertrude Stein, Francis Scott Fitzgerald, T.S. Eliot, Sinclair Lewis, Henry Miller, Ezra Pound, Sherwood Anderson, Ilya Erenburg, Pablo Picasso, Amadeo Modiliani, Wassily Kandinsky and others created some of their well-known works in these cafes.
It seems to me that if Hemingway and Picasso were alive today they would go to Starbucks. They would be sitting somewhere in the corner with computers and working online through wireless. Indeed, Starbucks has a real fascination, an artistic atmosphere and a relaxing charm.
Alisher Faizullaev 