Les ruines de paris by Jacques Reda
From Belleville to Passy, from Montmartre to La-Butte-aux-Cailles, from Antony to Saint-Ouen Jacques Reda is a traveler in his own city of Paris. In the tradition of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, he is a nervous, rather unleisurely flaneur, 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 confused (and sometimes all these things at once). We are led through the arrondissements and suburbs of Paris and beyond in a journey that moves to the rhythm of walking, of trains, to the hopeful tempo of upbeat jazz.
Reda the wanderer is forever on the move: he constantly sets off, stops, begins afresh, treasuring movement itself while journeying from place to place. Journeys that are at once exhilarating and familiar, journeys that mirror life itself and a world that ceaselessly rises anew from its own ruins. Jacques Reda's book is both a poetic meditation on Paris and a haunting companion to its views and moods.
In France, Jacques Reda's prose writings are passed back and forth between friends with the enthusiastic secret-sharing that one associates with fan clubs. Membership requirements include a taste for precise, tenderly ironic prose, polished to a delicacy of finish rarely attained by contemporary French writers. John Taylor, Times Literary Supplement
Jacques Reda was born in 1929. He lives in Paris. He is author of over thirty books of poetry and prose, recipient of the Prix Goncourt, and an eminent literary figure in mainland Europe.
Jennie Feldman studied French at Oxford. Her selection of poems by the French poet Jacques Reda, Treading Lightly, was published by Anvil in 2005 as was her highly praised first collection, The Lost Notebook. A former award-winning producer and presenter of radio documentaries, she also translates Hebrew poetry and teaches creative writing. She lives in Jerusalem.
Jennie Feldman studied French at Oxford. Her selection of poems by the French poet Jacques Reda, Treading Lightly, was published by Anvil in 2005 as was her highly praised first collection, The Lost Notebook. A former award-winning producer and presenter of radio documentaries, she also translates Hebrew poetry and teaches creative writing. She lives in Jerusalem.
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| ISBN 13 | 9782070327379 |
| ISBN 10 | 207032737X |
| Title | Les ruines de paris |
| Author | Jacques Reda |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Gallimard-Jeunesse |
| Year published | 2014-08-22 |
| Number of pages | 173 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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