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Paris Street Tales (Paperback)
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Paris Street Tales (Paperback)
Series: City Tales
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List price R399
Loot Price R284
Discovery Miles 2 840
You Save R115 (29%)
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Paris Street Tales is the third volume of a trilogy of translated
stories set in Paris. The previous two are Paris Tales, in which
each story is associated with one of the twenty arrondissements,
and Paris Metro Tales, in which the twenty-two stories are related
to a trip round the Paris Metro. This new volume contains eighteen
newly translated stories related to particular streets in Paris,
and one newly written tale of the city. The stories range from the
nineteenth century to the present day, and include tales by
well-known writers such as Colette, Maupassant, Didier Daeninckx,
and Simenon, and less familiar names such as Francis Carco, Aurelie
Filipetti, and Arnaud Baignot. They present a vivid picture of
Paris streets in a variety of literary styles and tones. Simenon's
Maigret is called upon to solve a mystery on the Boulevard
Beaumarchais; a flaneur learns some French history through
second-hand objects retrieved from the Seine; a nineteenth-century
affair in the Rue de Miromesnil goes badly wrong; a body is
discovered on the steps of the smallest street in Paris. Through
these stories we see how the city has changed over the last two
centuries and what has survived. All the tales in the book are
translated apart from the last, a new story by David Constantine,
based on the last days of the poet Gerard de Nerval.
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