Author: Edmund White
Translator: Ju-heon Kang
Publisher: Hyohyung
Hardcover | 270 pages | 188*128mm
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About This Book
Amazon.com's Best of 2001
If a place is best known by its particulars, then Edmund White is an expert
on Paris. Fortunately, he's generous with his secrets: he reveals a Paris not
found in any other guide in this first book in the Writer and the City series.
White's Paris is seen on foot, as a flâneur, a stroller who aimlessly loses
himself in a crowd, going wherever curiosity leads him and collecting
impressions along the way. Paris is the perfect city for the flâneur, as every
quartier is beautiful and full of rich and surprising delights. But this is no
typical tour of monuments and museums; it is much more intimate and surprising.
As a flâneur of Paris for 16 years, White knows where to find the very best of
everything--silver, sheets, plum slivovitz. He can tell you where to get Tex-Mex
surrounded by a dance rehearsal hall, where to rent an entire castle for a
party, or even where to get Skippy peanut butter. He eschews the pearl-gray city
built by Napoleon and roams the places where the real vitality lives, the
teaming quartiers inhabited by Arabs and Asians and Africans, the strange
corners, the markets where you can find absolutely anything in this city that
accommodates all tastes. White's Paris is a place rich in history with a passion
for novelty and distractions. So a walk through the Jewish ghetto leads to the
history of the little-known Musée Nissim de Camondo, with its impressive
collection of Louis XV and Louis XVI furniture, created by a family of Jewish
bankers ultimately killed in the Holocaust. White shares other favorite and
obscure museums, such as the Hôtel du Lauzun, where writers like Balzac and
Charles Baudelaire and the painter Edouard Manet met for long evenings of music
and hashish-induced hallucinations. Reminiscences in Montmartre reach back to
the thriving jazz culture created by African Americans in the years between the
world wars and include stories about Josephine Baker, Richard Wright, and James
Baldwin. While White may ignore Notre Dame, he has fascinating tidbits to share
about kings and queens and their heirs who still fight for the throne. The
variety of Paris, White remarks, is matched by the voraciousness and passion of
its people. With his own remarkable flair, he reveals a thriving and alluring
city where tourists rarely tread. --Lesley Reed
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