Paris Street Tales
Series: City Tales;
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 25 August 2016
- ISBN 9780198736790
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages262 pages
- Size 196x128x14 mm
- Weight 288 g
- Language English
- Illustrations Numerous black-and-white photographs 0
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Short description:
Paris Street Tales contains eighteen newly translated stories related to particular streets in Paris, and one newly written tale, accompanied by evocative illustrations throughout. These stories range from the nineteenth century to the present day, and offer a vivid picture of Paris streets in a variety of literary styles and tones.
MoreLong description:
Paris Street Tales is the third volume of a trilogy of translated stories set in Paris. The previous two are Paris Tales, in which each story is associated with one of the twenty arrondissements, and Paris Metro Tales, in which the twenty-two stories are related to a trip round the Paris Metro. This new volume contains eighteen newly translated stories related to particular streets in Paris, and one newly written tale of the city.
The stories range from the nineteenth century to the present day, and include tales by well-known writers such as Colette, Maupassant, Didier Daeninckx, and Simenon, and less familiar names such as Francis Carco, Aurélie Filipetti, and Arnaud Baignot. They present a vivid picture of Paris streets in a variety of literary styles and tones. Simenon's Maigret is called upon to solve a mystery on the Boulevard Beaumarchais; a flâneur learns some French history through second-hand objects retrieved from the Seine; a nineteenth-century affair in the Rue de Miromesnil goes badly wrong; a body is discovered on the steps of the smallest street in Paris. Through these stories we see how the city has changed over the last two centuries and what has survived. All the tales in the book are translated apart from the last, a new story by David Constantine, based on the last days of the poet Gérard de Nerval.
this lovely collection will give you a real sense of the city's character, and I defy anyone to read it without a great longing to get there and explore.
Table of Contents:
Rue des Degrés
Streets
The Rendezvous
Tableau Parisien
Rue de la Tacherie
Old Iron
Rue Saint Sulpice
The Freedom of the Streets
A Rapist's Shout One Night in Montparanasse
Lost Street Cries
Rue de la Chine
The Affair in the Boulevard Beaumarchais
Rooftop over the Champs Elysées
The pigeon who shat on people
The Street is not enough
Rue Pigalle
The hold-up in the Rue Ordener
The Tree with three branches
Rue de la Vieille Lanterne
