Disenchanted, Paris? “Unliveable” capital, polluted, saturated? It would be a little quick to forget that behind the asphalt city hides another, ideal and eternal, built over the course of words and centuries by the countless writers who lived, dreamed and worked there.
It is in the streets of this literary Paris that Gilles Schlesser’s work invites us to wander, listing the addresses of more than a thousand authors and their most famous characters, from Rabelais to Modiano, from Gavroche to Charles Swann. With delightful erudition, a whole section of French and world literature is thus told, thanks to a host of anecdotes that are sometimes scholarly, often funny and unusual.
On the Grands Boulevards or by side roads, between poetic stroll and geoliterary encyclopedia, this book offers itself as a walk between genres and eras, to discover the secrets of the “city of a hundred thousand novels”. A romantic dive into the heart of a Paris and a literature that is both familiar and unknown.
Gilles Schlesser is the author of more than twenty works, essays and novels, which explore the capital and its mysteries. He notably published, with Parigramme editions, Paris in the footsteps of Patrick Modiano et Saint-Germain-des-Prés, legendary places.
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We can read an article on this work on Actualitte.com…
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” This is not a book. It’s a monument. »
Jean-Claude Perrier, Weekly books, the magazine
“Not an address, not a place in the capital, relating to our history of French letters, which has escaped the expert eye of Gilles Schlesser. A stroll that enchants. »
Olivier Cariguel, Read Literary Magazine.
2023-11-04 20:57:20
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