A City of Sand and Puddles
Julian Barnes: Paris, 22 April 2010
Parisians: An Adventure History of Paris
by Graham Robb.
Picador, 476 pp., £18.99, April 2010,978 0 330 45244 1 Show More
by Graham Robb.
Picador, 476 pp., £18.99, April 2010,
The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps
by Eric Hazan, translated by David Fernbach.
Verso, 384 pp., £20, February 2010,978 1 84467 411 4 Show More
by Eric Hazan, translated by David Fernbach.
Verso, 384 pp., £20, February 2010,
“... theory; while its craftily alluring subtitle ‘An Adventure History of Paris’ seems to hint at Jules Verne (not that he is mentioned), and more widely at pace, narrative, readability. The virtues of fiction are evoked from the beginning, and practised throughout. Hazan’s approach is psychogeographical and political: the ‘invention’ of his title ... ”