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Laddar... The Invention of Paris: A History in Footstepsav Eric Hazan
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Gå med i LibraryThing för att få reda på om du skulle tycka om den här boken. Det finns inga diskussioner på LibraryThing om den här boken. Knap werk, vooral door de belezenheid van de auteur; het boek is doorspekt met citaten uit vooral 19de eeuwse Franse klassiekers. In die zin brengt Hazan Parijs zeker tot leven, als een stad waar voortdurend en soms radicaal, niets ontziend aan getimmerd is. Naar mijn smaak ligt er net iets teveel melancholie naar het vroegere Parijs in, maar welk Parijs dan?, dat van de revoluties, dat van voor Haussmann, of dat van de jaren 50 van de twintigste eeuw (jeugdjaren van de auteur)? Ook als introductie tot de Franse hoofdstad is dit werk niet geschikt: het vergt teveel voorkennis, gaat soms heel selectief om met het materiaal, en bevat weinig of geen kaartjes. Ik zag te laat dat dit oorspronkelijk in het Frans was gepubliceerd; nu heb ik het met de Engelse vertaling gedaan. inga recensioner | lägg till en recension
The Invention of Paris is a tour through the streets and history of the French capital under the guidance of radical Parisian author and publisher Eric Hazan. Hazan reveals a city whose squares echo with the riots, rebellions and revolutions of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Combining the raconteur's ear for a story with a historian's command of the facts, he introduces an incomparable cast of characters: the literati, the philosophers and the artists—Balzac, Baudelaire, Blanqui, Flaubert, Hugo, Maney, and Proust, of course; but also Doisneau, Nerval and Rousseau. It is a Paris dyed a deep red in its convictions. It is haunted and vitalized by the history of the barricades, which Hazan retells in rich detail. The Invention of Paris opens a window on the forgotten byways of the capital's vibrant and bloody past, revealing the city in striking new colors. Inga biblioteksbeskrivningar kunde hittas. |
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The book is in three main parts that are not linked to each other except by reference to the same regions. It seems to be a collection of essays by Hazan on different themes relating to Paris. The longest section describes each arrondissment, and the next situates the nineteenth century revolutions in specific parts of Paris. The third reflects on the literary and visual heritage of the city. Each has a different appeal, although I found the first two of greatest interest.
Especially rich is Hazan’s frequent quotation of the descriptions by social and literary figures of the melieu in which they lived and worked. They add imagery and a sense of the atmosphere (very dark and dirty in most of the city until the twentieth century) that will certainly colour my own appreciation of Paris when I next visit or read about the city.
This isn’t a tourist guide, although it provides a street-by-street view of many neighbourhoods that would illuminate many walks through the city. Reading it, I found many sections were much easier to follow with Google maps handy, so I could search for the street references. Even better, I could go into Street View, and look at the intersections or lanes that he describes.
Hazan writes from the perspective of a social revolutionary, so his acidic comments on the bourgeoisie of the nineteenth century or the governments of the most recent decades are strong and entertaining. (He refuses to call the Centre Pompidou by its name, preferring to call it the Centre Beaubourg after the neighbourhood that was flattened to build it.) If you are sympathetic to his point of view, this will add an entertaining quirkiness to his text – otherwise, it will likely come across as opinionated and irritating. Tant pis, as the French say. I spent many pleasurable evenings reading through the book and thinking about the city. ( )