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,
“... Like many Francophiles, I’ve never read a book about Paris. Not a whole one, all the way through, anyway. Of course, I’ve bought enough of them, of every sort, and in some cases the hope of their being read has extended over several years. For instance, I was almost sure I would tackle the distinguished art critic John Russell’s Paris (1960), ‘with photographs by Brassaï’, but never got past the pictures ... ”