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Paris Metro Tales: City Tales

Editat de Helen Constantine
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 23 mar 2011
Following on from Helen Constantine's hugely successful Paris Tales, the twenty-two short stories included in More Metro Tales take the reader on an fascinating journey around Paris by metro. The journey begins at the Gare du Nord, stops at twenty underground stations along the way, and ends at Lamarck-Caulaincourt. Some of these stories actually take place in the metro itself, but most are to be found when you emerge above ground. They range from the 15th-century account of the miraculous Saint Genevieve, patron saint of Paris, through tales by favourite writers such as Zola, Simenon, and Maupassant, to Martine Delerm's evocation of the last hours of Modigliani's mistress, Jeanne Hébuterne. Gérard de Nerval evokes the thriving, bustling market in Les Halles in the 1850s; Colette recounts her involvement in a traffic accident near the Opéra; Boulanger describes a blackly funny experience in Père Lachaise.Each story is illustrated with a black-and-white photograph and there is a map and suggested itinerary round the metro system. Readers will find familiar and unfamiliar writers here, but all are masterly writers of the short story and each evokes a different aspect of this endlessly intriguing and much-loved city, whether the traveller is on the metro or at home sitting in an armchair.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780199579808
ISBN-10: 0199579806
Pagini: 336
Ilustrații: Numerous black-and-white photographs
Dimensiuni: 125 x 193 x 19 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Oxford University Press
Colecția OUP Oxford
Seria City Tales

Locul publicării:Oxford, United Kingdom

Recenzii

more than a collection of stories. It is an evocation of a millieu
a richly varied collection of stories that will inspire a mix of thoughts and emotions
Constantine is an excellent translator
brilliant anthology

Notă biografică

Helen Constantine taught languages in schools until 2000, when she became a full-time translator. She has published two volumes of translated stories, Paris Tales and French Tales, and is currently editing a series of City Tales for Oxford University Press. She has translated Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier and Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos for Penguin. She is married to the writer David Constantine and with him edits the international magazine Modern Poetry in Translation.