Bayonne - Bayonne in Popular Culture

Bayonne in Popular Culture

In Wyndham Lewis's The Wild Body (1927) the protagonist, Ker-Orr, in the first story, 'A Soldier of Humour', takes the train from Paris and stays in the town of Bayonne before passing through into Spain.

In Ernest Hemingway's The Sun Also Rises, three of the characters visit the town en route to Pamplona, Spain.

In Kim Stanley Robinson's The Years of Rice and Salt (2002), Bayonne is the first city recolonized by the Muslims after the total depopulation of Europe by the Black Death. Named "Baraka", its earliest colonizers are later driven out by rivals from Al-Andalus and flee to the Loire Valley, where they found the city of Nsara.

The seventh track of Joe Bonamassa's album Dust Bowl is entitled The Last Matador of Bayonne.

In the semi-autobiographic Henry Miller's novel Tropic of Capricorn, the narrator describes a period of time selling the Encyclopædia Britannica door by door in the town.

In the summer of 2008, Manu Chao's live album Baionarena was recorded in the Arena of Bayonne.

In Earnest J. Gaines' novel, A Lesson Before Dying, Bayonne, Louisiana, is the name of a Cajun town central to the book.