{"product_id":"the-invention-of-paris-isbn-9781844677054","title":"The Invention of Paris","description":"\u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Paris\u003c\/i\u003e is a tour through the streets and history of the French capital under the guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher Eric Hazan. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHazan 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. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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. \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Paris\u003c\/i\u003e opens a window on the forgotten byways of the capital’s vibrant and bloody past, revealing the city in striking new colors.“[Hazan] stalks the capital, fulminating about the nineteenth and twentieth centuries’ artistic and political rebellions.”—\u003ci\u003eBookforum\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Detailed, passionate ... Any visit to [Paris] would be made richer by taking the time to read Hazan’s book.”—Angela Meyer, \u003ci\u003eBookslut\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This is a wondrous book, either to be read at home with a decent map, or carried about \u003ci\u003esur place\u003c\/i\u003e through areas no tourists bother with.”—Adam Thorpe, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“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 Morrison, \u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Amid the intellectual murkiness of the European scene, a few bright flames are burning: as witness the work of Eric Hazan.”—\u003ci\u003eNew Left Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[F]ew will be able to resist ... Hazan’s brick-by-brick account of the city’s history of strife and political posturing is riveting.”—\u003ci\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Do you want to be happy? Buy this book and take a stroll.”—\u003ci\u003eLes Inrockuptibles\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“Hazan wants to rescue individual moments from general forgetting and key sites from the bland homogenization of international city development; he is also a passionate left-wing historian seeking to rescue the truth of Paris’s revolutionary past.”—Julian Barnes, \u003ci\u003eLondon Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“One of the greatest books about the city anyone has written in decades, towering over a crowded field, passionate and lyrical and sweeping and immediate.”—\u003ci\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“This book is both a political and aesthetic delight, uncovering the real mysteries of Paris.”—Andrew Hussey, author of \u003ci\u003eParis: The Secret History\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“With its astonishing breadth of reference and incredible detail, this is a must for all lovers of Paris.”—Kevin Rushby, author of \u003ci\u003eParadise: A History of the Idea that Rules the World\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e“[A] stunning book.”—Aaron Freundschuh, \u003ci\u003eH-Net Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cb\u003eEric Hazan\u003c\/b\u003e is the founder of the publisher La Fabrique and the author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eNotes on the Occupation\u003c\/i\u003e and the highly acclaimed \u003ci\u003eThe Invention of Paris\u003c\/i\u003e. He has lived in Paris, France, all his life.","brand":"Verso","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303628296421,"sku":"NP9781844677054","price":29.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781844677054.jpg?v=1767739965","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/es\/products\/the-invention-of-paris-isbn-9781844677054","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}