Articles tagged ‘Books’
Who Has the Last Word? Victor Hugo or his Heirs?
By Parisgirl | February 5th, 2007 |
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It would have been just another novel - Cosette ou le temps des illusions (Cosette or the Time of Illusions) a sequel to Victor Hugo’s novel Les Miserables (in the spirit of the Gone with the Wind) sequel.
This sequel by Francois Ceresa decided to follow up the destinies of Cosette, Javert and Thenardier in [...]
More on the Man of the Year - Jonathan Littell
By Parisgirl | January 5th, 2007 | Add a Comment »
According to the Forbes.com story about Jonathan Littell’s novel Les Bienveillantes may not be until 2008 that we’ll see a copy of Les Bienveillantes in English. I had to leave my Gallimard copy, almost 900 pages, back in Paris, having barely scratched the surface of this tome which Harper Collins Publisher Jonathan Burnham [...]
Les Bienveillantes - Jonathan Littell
By Parisgirl | October 30th, 2006 | 1 Comment »
Flabbergasting. Incroyable. That an American might win the Tour de France - this doesn’t seem so extraordinary. But to receive one of France’s highest literary awards - bestowed by the highest of high: The French Academy of Literature - this should make headlines on the New York Times, The Washington [...]
RE: Around and About Paris by Thirza Vallois
By Parisgirl | August 30th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Excerpts from Thirza Vallois’s book series “Around and About Paris” are posted at www.parisvoice.com under the heading Paris Yesterday. You can also visit Thirza Vallois’w website. www.thirzavallois.com.
Vallois describes the history of each arrondissement - the 18th which includes Montmartre, for example. If you are eager to delve into the history of a [...]
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
By Parisgirl | August 16th, 2006 | Add a Comment »
Suite Francaise by Irene Nemirovsky
Chatto & Windus, London Translated from the French by Sandra Smith 2006
Suite Francaise is an interwoven collection of vignettes about life in Paris and rural villages during world War II and the German occupation. If you could imagine nowadays the entire Paris population vacating the city, not [...]
The Indiscreet Embourgeoisiement of Paris
By Parisgirl | March 11th, 2005 | Add a Comment »
Photo by Chris Card Fuller ©1976 All rights reserved.
This week in Le Figaro (March 8), Guillemette de Sairigne highlighted some of the statistics from Michel Pincon and Monique Pincon-Charlot’s “Sociologie de Paris”. Here are some of the statistics that may give you a clearer picture of life in the City of Light:
“There are 20,000 [...]
