The Ruins of Paris - Couverture souple

Reda, Jacques

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0948462930 ISBN 13 : 9780948462931

Editeur : Reaktion Books, 1996

Synopsis

From Belleville to Passy, from Montmartre to La-Butte-aux-Cailles, from Antony to Saint-Ouen - Jacques Réda is a traveler in his own city of Paris. In the tradition of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, he is a nervous, rather unleisurely flâneur, unsettling and subverting preconceived ideas about travel and home.

The Ruins of Paris echoes with the footsteps and the words of a wanderer by turns gloomy, curious, troubled, elated, angry, tender and confused (and sometimes all these things at once). We are led through the arrondissements and suburbs of Paris and beyond in a journey that moves to the rhythm of walking, of trains, to the hopeful tempo of upbeat jazz.

Réda the wanderer is forever on the move: he constantly sets off, stops, begins afresh, treasuring movement itself while journeying from place to place. Journeys that are at once exhilarating and familiar, journeys that mirror life itself and a world that ceaselessly rises anew from its own ruins. Jacques Réda's book is both a poetic meditation on Paris and a haunting companion to its views and moods.

"In France, Jacques Réda's prose writings are passed back and forth between friends with the enthusiastic secret-sharing that one associates with fan clubs. Membership requirements include a taste for precise, tenderly ironic prose, polished to a delicacy of finish rarely attained by contemporary French writers."--John Taylor, Times Literary Supplement

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Jacques Réda is the author of several collections of poetry including Récitatif (1970) and La Tourne (1975). Les Ruines de Paris was his first book of prose and is published here in English for the first time.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Reaktion Books
• Date d'édition: 1996
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0948462930
• ISBN 13: 9780948462931
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 144
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible