The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps - Softcover

Hazan, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844677052 ISBN 13: 9781844677054

Verlag: Verso Books, 2011

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Book by Hazan Eric

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Críticas:

This is a wondrous book, either to be read at home with a decent map, or carried about sur place through areas no tourists bother with.A" Adam Thorpe, Guardian Hazan wants to rescue individual moments from general forgetting and key sites from the bland homogenisation of international city development; he is also a passionate left-wing historian seeking to rescue the truth of Paris's revolutionary past.A" Julian Barnes, London Review of Books Hazan is all business. He trudges through Paris street by street, quoting what Balzac, Hugo, Baudelaire or Kafka said about a particular spot, pointing out where barricades were once erected and thieves gathered for drinks.A" Donald Morrsion, Financial Times This book is both a political and aesthetic delight, uncovering the real mysteries of Paris.A" Andrew Hussey, author of Paris: The Secret History

Reseña del editor:

The Invention of Paris is a tour through the streets and history of the French capital under the guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher Eric Hazan. Hazan reveals a city whose squares echo with the riots, rebellions and revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Combining the raconteur's ear for a story with a historian's command of the facts, he introduces an incomparable cast of characters: the literati, the philosophers and the artists-Balzac, Baudelaire, Blanqui, Flaubert, Hugo, Maney, and Proust, of course; but also Doisneau, Nerval and Rousseau. It is a Paris dyed a deep red in its convictions. It is haunted and vitalized by the history of the barricades, which Hazan retells in rich detail. The Invention of Paris opens a window on the forgotten byways of the capital's vibrant and bloody past, revealing the city in striking new colors.

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• Verlag: Verso Books
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1844677052
• ISBN 13: 9781844677054
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 408