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,
“... floor – the shopkeeper living on the mezzanine – apartments for the aristocracy on the second storey (the ‘noble’ floor before the invention of the lift), and workers in the attics. This mix had not yet completely disappeared even in the early 1960s. Hazan hates façadisation – wherein a building’s front is preserved while everything behind is ... ”