{"product_id":"paris-stories-isbn-9781101907566","title":"Paris Stories","description":"\u003ci\u003eParis Stories \u003c\/i\u003egathers classic stories about the City of Light by a wide range of writers across four centuries. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePerhaps no other European city has so captured the imagination of the artistically and romantically minded. Laurence Sterne explores the temptations of the French capital in a teasing study of foreign mores, and Restif de la Bretonne provides an eyewitness account of the horrors and glories of the French Revolution. Hugo, Balzac, Flaubert, and Zola offer fascinating portraits of the growing metropolis’s teeming humanity; the Goncourt brothers chronicle its glittering literary circles; and Huysmans describes a memorable evening at the Folies Bergère. Colette recounts the sensual adventures of a young girl in the decadent Paris of the early twentieth century, while F. Scott Fitzgerald revels in its urban glamour. Jean Rhys’s lost heroines wander from café to café, James Baldwin celebrates the city’s sexual freedoms, and Raymond Queneau gleefully reinvents the language of the street. In more recent decades, Michel Tournier’s North African immigrant walks a camel along the boulevards and Nobel laureate Patrick Modiano nostalgically maps the famed Parisian arrondissements. Theatrical and elegant, seamy and intellectual, Paris has never lost its alluring power, richly evoked in these compelling and seductive tales.PREFACE\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e FRANÇOIS RABELAIS\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eGargantua and Pantagruel\u003c\/i\u003e (1534)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e LAURENCE STERNE\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eA Sentimental Journey through France and Italy\u003c\/i\u003e (1768) \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eLes Nuits de Paris\u003c\/i\u003e (1792) \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e HONORÉ DE BALZAC\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eA Harlot High and Low\u003c\/i\u003e (1838–47)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e VICTOR HUGO\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eLes Misérables\u003c\/i\u003e (1862)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e GUSTAVE FLAUBERT\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eA Sentimental Education\u003c\/i\u003e (1869)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eJournals\u003c\/i\u003e (1871)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ÉMILE ZOLA\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eL’Assommoir\u003c\/i\u003e (1880) \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e GUY DE MAUPASSANT\u003cbr\u003e A Parisian Affair (1881)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e VILLIERS DE L’ISLE-ADAM\u003cbr\u003e The Unknown Woman (1883) \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e J. K. HUYSMANS\u003cbr\u003e The Folies-Bergère (1880)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ALPHONSE ALLAIS\u003cbr\u003e The Polymyth (c. 1890)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e COLETTE\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eClaudine in Paris\u003c\/i\u003e (1901) \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e LOUIS ARAGON\u003cbr\u003e The Passage de l’Opéra (1926)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e JEAN RHYS\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eQuartet\u003c\/i\u003e (1928)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e LOUIS-FERDINAND CÉLINE\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eJourney to the End of the Night\u003c\/i\u003e (1932)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e F. SCOTT FITZGERALD\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eTender Is the Night\u003c\/i\u003e (1934)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e GEORGES SIMENON\u003cbr\u003e In the Rue Pigalle (1936)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e DJUNA BARNES\u003cbr\u003e La Somnambule (1937)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e BARRY MILES\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eThe Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs,\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003ci\u003eand Corso in Paris, 1957–63\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e JAMES BALDWIN\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eGiovanni’s Room\u003c\/i\u003e (1956)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e JULIO CORTÁZAR\u003cbr\u003e Blow-up (1959) \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e RAYMOND QUENEAU\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eZazie\u003c\/i\u003e (1959)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e GEORGES PEREC\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eThings\u003c\/i\u003e (1965)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e RICHARD COBB\u003cbr\u003e Paris Xe (1980)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e MICHEL TOURNIER\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eThe Golden Droplet\u003c\/i\u003e (1986)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e PATRICK MODIANO\u003cbr\u003e From \u003ci\u003eFlowers of Ruin\u003c\/i\u003e (1991)\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e ACKNOWLEDGMENTS\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eSHAUN WHITESIDE\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eis a translator of French, German, Italian, and Dutch works. He lives in London.PREFACE\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e \u003cb\u003e‘\u003c\/b\u003eWe’ll always have Paris,\u003cb\u003e’ \u003c\/b\u003eBogart tells Bergman at the end of \u003ci\u003eCasablanca\u003c\/i\u003e, establishing Paris once and for all as the romantic capital of the world, a position that the city continues to hold even today. This may account for its status as the world\u003cb\u003e’\u003c\/b\u003es leading tourist destination, with its iconic landmarks, its boulevards and pavement cafés, its impeccable chic and, for Anglo-Saxon visitors at least, its dashing suggestions of freedom and, for some, impropriety. As I hope I show in this selection, there is of course much more to Paris than the tourists see. I have opened in the Paris of the early Renaissance, where Rabelais\u003cb\u003e’ \u003c\/b\u003egiant Gargantua, perched on the towers of Notre Dame, cheerfully relieves his bladder on the horrified crowd below, to stress another side of the city \u003cb\u003e– \u003c\/b\u003eits robust, outrageous satirical streak, its disdain for convention and decorum.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Eighteenth-century travellers like Laurence Sterne enjoyed teasing their readers with accounts of lax morals and brazen forwardness unimaginable at home \u003cb\u003e– \u003c\/b\u003eno doubt stirring many curious souls to make the journey themselves, or dream forlornly of doing so. Vivid accounts of the Revolution stress the potential for violence that lay beneath the city\u003cb\u003e’\u003c\/b\u003es surface. And its great anatomists, the realist novelists of the nineteenth century, captured in almost photographic detail the archetypal city not only of the elegant upper classes who set the tone for the rest of Europe, but of the multitudes who toiled in the streets down below. The vibrant city of the twentieth century is a place of both gleeful artistic experiment and existential gloom, attracting both the gilded and the lost.\u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e I hope that in this collection I have captured some of Paris\u003cb\u003e’\u003c\/b\u003es great variety, its seamier side, the world of the \u003ci\u003epetites gens\u003c\/i\u003e, as well as its glitter, its glamour, its keen intelligence and its sexy, seductive allure. There is romance here, yes, but there is also cynicism, satire and revolt, and a refusal to be dragged down for long by history\u003cb\u003e’\u003c\/b\u003es darker turns. \u003cb\u003e‘\u003c\/b\u003eHe who contemplates the depths of Paris is seized with vertigo. Nothing is more fantastic. Nothing is more tragic. Nothing is more sublime.\u003cb\u003e’ \u003c\/b\u003eSo wrote Victor Hugo. I will raise a glass of champagne to that. \u003cbr\u003e  \u003cbr\u003e Shaun Whiteside","brand":"Everyman's Library","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46303804063973,"sku":"NP9781101907566","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9781101907566.jpg?v=1767734508","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/paris-stories-isbn-9781101907566","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}