Books by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (translated by Ralph Manheim)
Journey to the End of the Night
by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (translated by Ralph Manheim)
Paris is one of the characters in the book. You get a real sense of what it looked like in the 1920s – people hanging out in cafés and drinking madly
Interviews where books by Louis-Ferdinand Céline (translated by Ralph Manheim) were recommended
Rachel Kushner on Books That Influenced Her
Rachel Kushner, author of The Flamethrowers and The Mars Room, which has been shortlisted for the 2018 Man Booker Prize, discusses the five books that have most influenced her writing, from Dostoyevsky to Marguerite Duras. She muses on the question of what fiction can offer: “A novel itself, if it is good, and effective at whatever its particular aesthetic and philosophical aim is, can answer the question best, so that a novelist doesn’t have to.”
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Down and Out in Paris and London
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Journey to the End of the Night
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Overhead in a Balloon
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The Belly of Paris
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Dictionnaire Historique des Rues de Paris
by Jacques Hillairet
The best books on Paris, recommended by David Downie
The best books on Paris, recommended by David Downie
The city of romance and art is also, like most big cities, a place of grit and grime. The American writer and long-time Paris resident David Downie tells us where to look if we’re to understand the people and past of this most alluring city.
