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Lädt ... Metro Stop Paris: An Underground History of the City of Light (2008)von Gregor Dallas
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Melde dich bei LibraryThing an um herauszufinden, ob du dieses Buch mögen würdest. Keine aktuelle Diskussion zu diesem Buch. This is a somewaht quirky tale of the history of Paris told through the strategy of exploring Métro stations of historical significance. It is interesting in many areas, but does not cover all the literary users of the Métro in their writing. I am thinking particularly of Raymond Queneau's, Zazie dans le Métro, and other Oulipo efforts. Twelve station areas are covered from Denfer-Rochereau to Pere Lachaise on lines 1, 3, 4, 6, 7, and 12. ( ) Metrostop Paris by Gregor Dallas is a pleasant guide to the city for someone who already knows it very well - like London, you do tend to navigate yourself around in relation to which metrostop you're closest to - however, I found myself wondering how those who don't know Paris so well enjoy Dallas' frequent tangents off into realms of time and space unknown that veer wildly away from the metro stations themselves. I personally enjoyed reading a little fact for a change, bombarding the boyfriend with particularly fascinating snippets and thoroughly enjoying the random points, obscure characters and themes in the city's history. However, I am, I have realised, a literary fiction girl through and through and I very naughtily skipped one chapter towards the end, desperate to leave the real world behind and return to some make believe instead......tralala. http://relishreads.blogspot.co.uk/2012/07/paris-in-july-le-scoop.html Gregor pokes around various little known historical vignettes of Paris. The theme "metro stop" apparently is only a device; he seems to have picked the vignette first and then located the nearest metro stop. In any event the book is well written and entertaining. It will add to your understanding of Parisian and Frencvh culture and history. Zeige 3 von 3 keine Rezensionen | Rezension hinzufügen
The name of every Parisian metro station tells a story. In Metrostop Paris Gregor Dallas recounts a series of extraordinary but true tales about the city as he leads his readers around the metro. Both the armchair traveller and the visitor will enjoy an illuminating journey in the company of a compelling storyteller and veteran of the city. The book includes visits to Paris's catacombs at 'Hell's Gate', the literary cafés and old jazz cellars of Montparnasse and Saint-Germain-des-Prés and the seventeenth-century alleys of the Marais, along with trips to the Palais-Royal at the time of the Revolution and the world of opera during Claude Debussy's lifetime. Through the eyes of the existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre, Dallas describes the German occupation of Paris during the Second World War and the intellectual wars that immediately followed. A visit to the futuristic Cité de la Science at La Villette prompts the story of the Marquis de Morès, the French 'cowboy' and anti-Semite, who was eventually murdered by tribesmen of the Sahara Desert in 1896. Outside the Jesuit church of Saint-Paul Dallas tells us about Gabriel de Montgomery - forgotten ancestor of Montgomery of Alamein - who accidentally killed his king just there and, after leading the Protestant armies against Catherine de Medicis, was executed on the Place de Grève. This exciting journey through time and space concludes at the Cemetery Père Lachaise with the unknown tale of Oscar Wilde's strange involvement in the Dreyfus Affair, the greatest legal scandal of all time. Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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