The Invention of Paris: A History in Footsteps - Softcover

Hazan, Eric

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1844677052 ISBN 13: 9781844677054

Publisher: Verso Books, 2011

Synopsis

Rare Book

About this title

Review:

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. --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. --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. --Donald Morrsion, Financial Times

About the Author:

Eric Hazan is the founder of the publisher La Fabrique and the author of several books, including Notes on the Occupation. He has lived in Paris, France, all his life.

About this edition

• Publisher: Verso Books
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1844677052
• ISBN 13: 9781844677054
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 408