Paris Stories

Hardback

Main Details

Title Paris Stories
Authors and Contributors      Edited by Shaun Whiteside
SeriesEveryman's Library POCKET CLASSICS
Physical Properties
Format:Hardback
Pages:400
Dimensions(mm): Height 190,Width 125
Category/GenreAnthologies
Classic fiction (pre c 1945)
Short stories
ISBN/Barcode 9781841596204
ClassificationsDewey:808.831083244361
Audience
General

Publishing Details

Publisher Everyman
Imprint Everyman's Library
Publication Date 4 February 2016
Publication Country United Kingdom

Description

The alluring power of Paris has never dimmed and it is richly captured in all its facets in these compelling and seductive tales. Beautiful hardback gift edition from Everyman In the eighteenth century, Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores and Restif de la Bretonne provides an eye-witness account of the Revolution. From the 1800s, Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola offer fascinating portraits of the city's teeming humanity; the Goncourt brothers chronicle the explosion of artistic talent; Huysmans describes an evening at the Folies Berg re. Colette chronicles the pitfalls for a young girl in the decadent city of the early twentieth century; F. Scott Fitzgerald revels in the city's glamour; Jean Rhys's lost heroines wander from cafe to cafe; James Baldwin celebrates its sexual freedoms; and Raymond Queneau gleefully reinvents the language of the street. In our time, Michel Tournier's North African immigrant walks a camel along the boulevards, while Nobel Laureate Patrick Modiano brilliantly maps the city's many arrondissements. The alluring power of Paris has never dimmed and it is richly captured in all its facets in these compelling and seductive tales.

Author Biography

Shaun Whiteside is an award-winning translator from French, German, Italian and Dutch. His most recent translations from German include Aftermath by Harald Jahner, To Die in Spring by Ralf Rothmann, Swansong 1945 by Walter Kempowski, Berlin Finale by Heinz Rein and The Broken House by Horst Kruger.