【正确答案】正确答案：I agree with this statement. Throughout the first twenty years of the century European artists had flocked to Paris, considering it the cultural center of the Western World. Feeling alienated from the conservative post-war sensibilities of their country, many young Americans moved there, hoping to take part in the experimental advances of the artistic community. Though it was only to last until the start of World War II, this time saw the beginning of a number of the major European movements including Modernism, Dadaism, and Surrealism. This decade put American literature on the map: F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote and lived the " jazz age," Ezra Pound collected funds for writers, composed short operas, and wrote experimental poems, and Ernest Hemingway sat in a garret forging a brand-new American prose. " Now for some if not all of these reasons, Paris was where the twentieth century was," observed Gertrude Stein who held weekly salons throughout the 1920s. So, it is safe to say that Paris in the 1920s is the cradle of Western modernist literature.