Paris

by Julian Green

Overview

An American born in Paris at the turn of the last century, Julian Green takes the reader on an imaginative stroll around the French capital, revealing its secret stairways, courtyards, and alleys. From haunted visions of Notre Dame to memories of the old Trocadero, Green describes strange and little-known locations as well as the great sights. A special bilingual edition illustrated with Green’s own photographs, this is a book to treasure, containing the hidden delights of Paris in an intimate literary portrait.

Julian Green published over 70 books in France and was a member of both the Académie Française and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780714534046
Publisher:	Marion Boyars Publishers Ltd
Publication date:	09/01/2005
Series:	Marion Boyars Modern Classics
Edition description:	Bilingual
Pages:	160
Product dimensions:	5.10(w) x 7.80(h) x 0.50(d)
Language:	French

About the Author

Julian Green published over 70 books in France and was a member both of the Academie Francaise and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences

Editorial Reviews

This book about Paris is a collection of Green's post-1945 writings--many previously published, but none in English--that has been illustrated with his own photographs. His love affair with Paris, where he was born of American parents in 1900, is manifested as a lifelong preoccupation with the city. He has captured its soul in the daily drama and small mysteries of its churches, stairways, and neighborhood eccentricities. The descriptions are exquisite and sensual, revealing nostalgia for the Paris of his youth, as well as a concern for its future. He has spent most of his 90 years there and justifiably considers himself to be a native. This is further evidenced in his position as the first foreigner to be elected to L'Academie francaise. This bilingual edition will be of interest for academic and large public library collections.-- Mary Ellen Beck, Troy P.L., N.Y.

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