Author: Andrew Gallix
Publisher: Repeater
ISBN: 1912248395
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 537
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Fiction and essays inspired by Paris from more than 70 Anglophone writers -- A MoveableFeast for the twenty-first century. "When good Americans die, they go to Paris", wrote the Irish playwright Oscar Wilde in 1894. The French capital has always radiated an unmatched cultural, political and intellectual brilliance in the anglophone imagination, maintaining its status as the modern cosmopolitan city par excellence through the twentieth century to today. We'll Never Have Paris explores this enduring fascination with this myth of a bohemian and literary Paris (that of the Lost Generation, Joyce, Beckett and Shakespeare and Company) which also happens to be a largely anglophone construct -- one which the Eurostar and Brexit only seem to have exacerbated in recent years. Edited by Andrew Gallix, this collection brings together many of the most talented and adventurous writers from the UK, Ireland, USA, Australia and New Zealand to explore this theme through short stories, essays and poetry, in order to build up a captivating portrait of Paris as viewed by English speakers today -- A Moveable Feast for the twenty-first century. We'll Never Have Paris includes contributions from seventy-nine authors, including Tom McCarthy, Will Self, Brian Dillon, Joanna Walsh, Eley Williams, Max Porter, Sophie Mackintosh and Lauren Elkin.
Author: Jennifer Coburn
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
ISBN: 1402288654
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 397
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How her daughter and her passport taught Jennifer to live like there's no tomorrow Jennifer Coburn has always been terrified of dying young. So she decides to save up and drop everything to travel with her daughter, Katie, on a whirlwind European adventure before it's too late. Even though her husband can't join them, even though she's nervous about the journey, and even though she's perfectly healthy, Jennifer is determined to jam her daughter's mental photo album with memories—just in case. From the cafés of Paris to the top of the Leaning Tower of Pisa, Jennifer and Katie take on Europe one city at a time, united by their desire to see the world and spend precious time together. In this heartwarming generational love story, Jennifer reveals how their adventures helped vanquish her fear of dying...for the sake of living. "Brimming with joie de vivre!"—Jamie Cat Callan, author of Ooh La La! French Women's Secrets to Feeling Beautiful Every Day "Coburn proves as adept at describing the terrain of the human heart as she is the gardens of Alcázar or the streets of Paris."—Claire and Mia Fontaine, authors of the bestselling Come Back and Have Mother, Will Travel
Author: Margery Sharp
Publisher: Open Road Media
ISBN: 1504034279
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 111
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A young woman learns about painting—and more—in 1940s Paris in this “outrageously funny” novel by the New York Times–bestselling author of The Eye of Love (Newark Evening News). Eighteen-year-old Martha is blessed with the opportunity of a lifetime: an all-expenses-paid trip to Paris to study where some of the world’s greatest painters lived and worked. Despite her single-minded pursuit of creativity, she attracts an admirer in the City of Light. It isn’t a debonair Frenchman who seduces her, but a homesick British bank clerk who offers her all the creature comforts of home. And when an unexpected complication arises, Martha deals with the consequences in her usual sensible, independent fashion. Witty, tender, and richly evocative of late 1940s Paris, Martha in Paris is a beguiling portrait of the artist as a young woman as she learns the facts of life.
Author: Marie-José Gransard
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN: 0755601777
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 353
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Paris is the crowning jewel of France, and this literary guide for travellers explores its 20th century history, from 1900-1950. Paris at the turn of the twentieth century had become the cultural capital of the world. Artists and writers came to contribute to flourishing avant-garde movements, as the Left Bank became a new centre of creativity. It drew tourists and travellers, but also many exiled from their home countries or escaping political persecution, and those seeking freedom from social constraints. The romantic myth of Paris persists, but Marie-José Gransard explores the darker side of the City of Lights. She brings her subjects to life by describing where and how they lived, what they wrote and what was written about them, through a wide-ranging literary legacy of diaries, memoirs, letters, poetry, theatre, cinema and fiction. In Twentieth-Century Paris: A Literary Guide for Travellers (1900-1950) both the visitor and the armchair traveller alike will find familiar names, from Ernest Hemingway and George Orwell to Virginia Woolf and Katherine Mansfield, and they will encounter unfairly forgotten or neglected writers, and many artists and musicians, famous and less well-known Russians, and writers and thinkers from as far as the Caribbean and Latin America.
Author: Jessica Goodman
Publisher: Oxford University Press
ISBN: 019251668X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 248
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The thirty years Carlo Goldoni spent in Paris hold an ambiguous place in his career. The preface to his autobiography explicitly draws attention to France as the site of his authorial glory, but elsewhere he dismisses his work for the Parisian Comédie-Italienne as a failure, and this view has come to dominate modern readings of his French experience. This study sets out to explore this apparent contradiction. By reading Goldoni's own contemporary and subsequent accounts through the lens of his context as a dramatic author in 1760s Paris, Jessica Goodman sheds new light on both his experience and critical reactions to that experience. A key part of this contextualisation is an examination of contemporary Comédie-Italienne archives, resulting in the most comprehensive existing account of this oft-neglected theatre and its authorial relations in the period. When material and artistic conditions at the Comédie-Italienne thwarted the self-fashioning strategies Goldoni had developed in Italy, he turned his attention to other areas of French life; notably the court and the Comédie-Française. Yet despite relative success in this regard, his career as an eclectic homme de lettres was lost in translation to posterity. In his French Mémoires, he constructed the claim of Parisian glory according to an out-dated understanding of what it meant to succeed in the French literary field, focusing predominantly on the power of Comédie-Française success. Ultimately, this construction was a failure: in modern France, Goldoni is remembered as a famous foreigner, not the consecrated French littérateur he believed he had become.
Author: Kevin Russell
Publisher: Fulton Books, Inc.
ISBN: 1639854770
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 350
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Life is fragile. When Marcela is rocked by the sudden death of her mother, she takes an impromptu trip to Paris, where she meets Anastasio. He very well could be the man of her dreams. Not that's she's dreamt much. She buried those kinds of longings in the drudge of her existence...work. What possessed her to take this trip with an open ticket to a place unknown? It was so unlike her. She never expected she would find romantic love in her life, but it was love at first sight. After only five days of an intense, intimate romance, she found a love of the times. Anastasio is a wine seller from Italy, and she owns a boutique jewelry store in Barcelona. After they decide that their love was more than infatuation, Spain and their new life awaits. Moulin Rouge, the sudden downpour, the exact exquisite montage of time and place far away from anything she has ever known. Together they suspend time and long-held beliefs to create a binding, unbridled love. But is their love strong enough to keep their promise to be together after they part from Paris? They both will be tested by their minds, friends, and family. Through a twist of events, they find that love can conquer all. Unknowingly, they are set on a course that saves them both. They have to find the will to overcome any obstacles to keep the love they found in Paris. Not knowing why, he suddenly does not show up, and she returns to her life, the jewelry shop of broken beliefs. She is able to feel that unconditional love again and be his secret savior. They withstand the fate life has given them. How closely they could have missed each other yet again, find, and take the chance for the greatest love. Happiness is now a way of life! Now that they have started their own family, they are constantly surprised by what life hands them. Their child, Paris, is yet another blessing to this life they have forged. Their love is even stronger and more intimate than when it all started. But life itself is unreliable. Once you think you know how the story goes, life changes its story. They have sunsets, sailing, the joy of each other, and their child. Those sunsets...just like every day, every love must have one. They ultimately learn every day is worth living, and this love worth having. One thing is for certain. They will never forget Paris in this gripping love story.
Author: Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
ISBN: 3734014492
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 90
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Reproduction of the original: To Paris and Prison: Venice by Jacques Casanova de Seingalt
Author: Sue Watson
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 1510729909
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 316
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A charming second-chance love story for fans of The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. Does first love deserve a second chance? During her first week at art college, Rosie Jackson, almost seventeen, locks eyes with the charismatic Peter from across the room of their nude figure drawing class, and the course of her life is changed forever. Now, on the cusp of sixty-five and recently widowed, Rosie is slowly coming to terms with a new future. And after a chance encounter with Peter forty-seven years later, she is brought back to that summer of 1968, when she fell in love for the first time and dared to dream boldly of a life in Paris. As Rosie and Peter pick up where they had left off, they both begin to wonder what if . . . Told with warmth, wit, and humor, We’ll Always Have Paris is a moving and uplifting novel about two people giving love a second chance in later life—the choices they make, the lives they lead, and the love they share.
Author: Hubert Damisch
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 9780226135106
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 408
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Drawing on Freudian theories of sexuality and Kant's conception of the beautiful, French art historian Hubert Damisch considers artists as diverse as Raphael, Picasso, Watteau, and Manet to demonstrate that beauty has always been connected to ideas of sexual difference and pleasure. Damisch's tale begins with the judgment of Paris, in which Paris awards Venus the golden apple and thus forever links beauty with desire. The casting of this decision as a mistake—in which desire is rewarded over wisdom and strength—is then linked to theories of the unconscious and psychological drives. In his quest for an exposition of the beautiful in its relation to visual pleasure, Damisch employs what he terms “analytic iconology,” following the revisions and repetitions of the motif of the judgment through art history, philosophy, aesthetics, and psychoanalysis. This translation brings an important figure of the French art historical tradition to Anglo-American audiences.
Author: John Leighton
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Paris (France)
Languages : en
Pages : 544
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