Julian Green was born to American parents in Paris in 1900, and spent most of his life in the French capital. Paris is an extraordinary, lyrical love letter to the city, taking the reader on an imaginative journey around its secret stairways, courtyards, alleys and hidden places. Whether evoking the cool of a deserted church on a hot summer's day, remembering Notre Dame in a winter storm in 1940, describing chestnut trees lit up at night like 'Japanese lanterns' or lamenting the passing of street cries and old buildings, his book is filled with unforgettable imagery. It is a meditation on getting lost and wasting time, and on what it truly means to know a city.
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Truthful, unpretentious and haunting (The Times Literary Supplement )
Exquisitely literary in a traditional French manner (New York Review of Books )
Paris has many moments of truly arresting beauty...the attention to detail is astonishing, and reflects the memories of someone who has devoted years of their life to the art of getting lost in the city (Observer )
A magical memoir of Paris...His non-fiction has a tender emotional directness that remains startling and original....Like many great writers on urban life, Green became the city he inhabited, and his book is as much a guide to the inside of his mind as it is to Paris (Telegraph )
Exquisitely literary in a traditional French manner (New York Review of Books )
Paris has many moments of truly arresting beauty...the attention to detail is astonishing, and reflects the memories of someone who has devoted years of their life to the art of getting lost in the city (Observer )
A magical memoir of Paris...His non-fiction has a tender emotional directness that remains startling and original....Like many great writers on urban life, Green became the city he inhabited, and his book is as much a guide to the inside of his mind as it is to Paris (Telegraph )
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Julian Green was born in Paris in 1900 and spent most of his extraordinary literary career there, writing in French for a wide European readership. He published over sixty-five books in France, including novels, essays, plays and fourteen volumes of his journal. In addition, he published five celebrated books in the United States. During the First World War, Green served in the American Red Cross and then in the French Army; during the Second World War, he worked at the US Office of War Information, broadcasting to France on the radio. As an American, Julian Green gained the honour of being the only foreign member of the Académie Francaise. He died in Paris in 1998.
Lila Azam Zanganeh was born in Paris. She has taught literature, cinema and Romance languages at Harvard University and now writes and lives mainly in New York City.
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I read a review of this book and felt I would like to read it. I have read it and it is a fascinating account of Paris in the 30's and 40's and what makes it a more interesting book is having the original in French in addition to the English translation. Anyone who has an appreciation of Paris would enjoy having this on the bookshelf.
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Not yet read but like the adjacent pages with English and French... good for a [basic] language learner like moi!
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Atmospheric memoir of Paris before the Second World War
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Julian Green writes about his childhood in Paris and his memories of the city, of streets that have been changed forever (not for the good), neighborhoods obliterated and a way of life that will never come back. Beautifully written with the French language version on one side of the page and the English language version on the other, it's a perfect book for people who love Paris and love the French language.
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