Short biographical sketches of various authors and their links to Paris, followed by very short capsule summaries of several Paris sites and their relevance to the authors. Surprisingly uninteresting, and very poorly designed.
This book features brief summaries of the lives of about two dozen famous authors that spent significant periods of their writing careers in Paris, starting with Molière and ending with James Baldwin. Included are links to homes owned by the authors, restaurants and hotels they frequented, and other related sites of interest.
The author is a journalist, and the stories about the authors focus more on their scandalous behaviors more than the literary merit of their works. Thus, for me, it was not as interesting a read as it could have been.… (més)
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