Paris Dreambook: An Unconventional Guide to the Splendor and Squalor of the City

by Lawrence Osborne

Book Overview

Osborne stops in to a voodoo temple on the Boulevard de Clichy, the steam-wreathed inner sanctum of a Turkish bath and an apartment belonging to an ancient veteran of an S&M brothel that once served the blond conquerors of the German occupation.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679737758
• ISBN13: 9780679737759
• Release Date: June 1992
• Publisher: Vintage Books USA
• Length: 210 Pages
• Weight: 0.60 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

Understand your own Paris

This wonderful book will give you a sense of how to approach your own unconscious Paris. And the more you visit Paris, the more the archetypal inner layers build up inside, and the more this unique and very funny book helps you navigate not just Paris but yourself. There will be those who find Osborne's writing too dense and convoluted for their taste, but to them i would say, persevere! It is worth the effort.

summer in paris

just got back from a hot summer in Paris and read this every night - a bit lush for my taste sometimes, but I really got into the layers of architecture, food, urban design, political satire, word-play and sex...it's a really original book, violent and brilliant, if a bit immature in places ( understandable for a writer still in his 20's I guess ). Some of my friends agreed, some disagreed. The chapters on courtesans and Turkish baths rock!

invaluable kinky trip through Parsis

This is the most brilliant book on Paris ever written in English - quirky, infuriating, uneven, but definately original and fierce and permeated with amazing erudition. Osborne has written for the Voice here, the New Republic and Lingua Franca - he's a superb essayist all round