Author: Eugène AtgetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
A Vision of Paris
Author: Eugène AtgetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
A vision of Paris
Author: Eugène AtgetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
A Vision of Paris. The Photographs of Eugène Atget. The Words of Marcel Proust (reprinted from "Remembrance of Things Past"). Edited, with an Introduction, by Arthur D. Trottenberg, Etc. [With Portraits of Atget and Proust.].
Author: Eugène ATGETA Vision of Paris
Author: Eugène AtgetPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 211
Book Description
A Vision of Paris. Paris Du Temps Perdu. Photographies D'Eugène Atget. Textes (tirés de "A la Recherche Du Temps Perdu") de Marcel Proust. Compiled, with an Introduction, by Arthur D. Trottenberg. With Portraits of Atget and Proust.
Author: Eugène ATGETParis to the Moon
Author: Adam GopnikPublisher: Random House
ISBN: 1588361381
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 370
Book Description
Paris. The name alone conjures images of chestnut-lined boulevards, sidewalk cafés, breathtaking façades around every corner--in short, an exquisite romanticism that has captured the American imagination for as long as there have been Americans. In 1995, Adam Gopnik, his wife, and their infant son left the familiar comforts and hassles of New York City for the urbane glamour of the City of Light. Gopnik is a longtime New Yorker writer, and the magazine has sent its writers to Paris for decades--but his was above all a personal pilgrimage to the place that had for so long been the undisputed capital of everything cultural and beautiful. It was also the opportunity to raise a child who would know what it was to romp in the Luxembourg Gardens, to enjoy a croque monsieur in a Left Bank café--a child (and perhaps a father, too) who would have a grasp of that Parisian sense of style we Americans find so elusive. So, in the grand tradition of the American abroad, Gopnik walked the paths of the Tuileries, enjoyed philosophical discussions at his local bistro, wrote as violet twilight fell on the arrondissements. Of course, as readers of Gopnik's beloved and award-winning "Paris Journals" in The New Yorker know, there was also the matter of raising a child and carrying on with day-to-day, not-so-fabled life. Evenings with French intellectuals preceded middle-of-the-night baby feedings; afternoons were filled with trips to the Musée d'Orsay and pinball games; weekday leftovers were eaten while three-star chefs debated a "culinary crisis." As Gopnik describes in this funny and tender book, the dual processes of navigating a foreign city and becoming a parent are not completely dissimilar journeys--both hold new routines, new languages, a new set of rules by which everyday life is lived. With singular wit and insight, Gopnik weaves the magical with the mundane in a wholly delightful, often hilarious look at what it was to be an American family man in Paris at the end of the twentieth century. "We went to Paris for a sentimental reeducation-I did anyway-even though the sentiments we were instructed in were not the ones we were expecting to learn, which I believe is why they call it an education."
A Vision of Paris
Author: Sara ThompsonPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : French literature
Languages : en
Pages : 298
Book Description
The Belly of Paris
Author: Émile ZolaPublisher: Good Press
ISBN:
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 383
Book Description
The Belly of Paris (Le Ventre de Paris) is the third novel in Émile Zola's twenty-volume series Les Rougon-Macquart, first published in 1873. It is a novel of the teeming life which surrounds the great central markets of Paris. The book was originally translated into English by Henry Vizetelly and published in 1888 under the title Fat and Thin. After Vizetelly's imprisonment for obscene libel the novel was one of those revised and expurgated by his son, Ernest Alfred Vizetelly. The heroine is Lisa Quenu, a daughter of Antoine Macquart. She has become prosperous, and with prosperity her selfishness has increased. Her brother-in-law Florent had escaped from penal servitude in Cayenne and lived for a short time in her house, but she became tired of his presence and ultimately denounced him to the police. Émile Zola (1840 – 1902) was a French writer, the most important exemplar of the literary school of naturalism and an important contributor to the development of theatrical naturalism. He was a major figure in the political liberalization of France.
Orphic Paris
Author: Henri ColePublisher: New York Review of Books
ISBN: 1681372185
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 177
Book Description
A poetic portrait of Paris that combines prose poetry, diary, and memoir by award-winning writer and poet Henri Cole. Henri Cole’s Orphic Paris combines autobiography, diary, essay, and poetry with photographs to create a new form of elegiac memoir. With Paris as a backdrop, Cole, an award-winning American poet, explores with fresh and penetrating insight the nature of friendship and family, poetry and solitude, the self and freedom. Cole writes of Paris, “For a time, I lived here, where the call of life is so strong. My soul was colored by it. Instead of worshiping a creator or man, I cared fully for myself, and felt no guilt and confessed nothing, and in this place I wrote, I was nourished, and I grew.” Written under the tutelary spirit of Orpheus—mystic, oracular, entrancing—Orphic Paris is an intimate Paris journal and a literary commonplace book that is a touching, original, brilliant account of the city and of the artists, writers, and luminaries, including Cole himself, who have been moved by it to create.
The Cambridge Companion to the Literature of Paris
Author: Anna-Louise MilnePublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1107005124
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
A comprehensive exploration of Paris through the texts and experiences of a vast and vibrant range of authors.