Ruins of Paris

by Jacques Reda and Jacques Réda

Book Overview

From Belleville to Passy, from Montmartre to La-Butte-aux-Cailles, from Antony to Saint-Ouen - Jacques R da is a traveler in his own city of Paris. In the tradition of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, he is a nervous, rather unleisurely fl neur, unsettling and subverting preconceived ideas about travel and home.

The Ruins of Paris echoes with the footsteps and the words of a wanderer by turns gloomy, curious, troubled, elated, angry, tender and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0948462930
• ISBN13: 9780948462931
• Release Date: August 1997
• Publisher: Reaktion Books
• Length: 144 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.1"