Table of Contents

PREFACE
 
FRANÇOIS RABELAIS
From Gargantua and Pantagruel (1534)
 
LAURENCE STERNE
From A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy (1768)
 
RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE
From Les Nuits de Paris (1792)
 
HONORÉ DE BALZAC
From A Harlot High and Low (1838–47)
 
VICTOR HUGO
From Les Misérables (1862)
 
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
From A Sentimental Education (1869)
 
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT
From Journals (1871)
 
ÉMILE ZOLA
From L’Assommoir (1880)
 
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
A Parisian Affair (1881)
 
VILLIERS DE L’ISLE-ADAM
The Unknown Woman (1883)
 
J. K. HUYSMANS
The Folies-Bergère (1880)
 
ALPHONSE ALLAIS
The Polymyth (c. 1890)
 
COLETTE
From Claudine in Paris (1901)
 
LOUIS ARAGON
The Passage de l’Opéra (1926)
 
JEAN RHYS
From Quartet (1928)
 
LOUIS-FERDINAND CÉLINE
From Journey to the End of the Night (1932)
 
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
From Tender Is the Night (1934)
 
GEORGES SIMENON
In the Rue Pigalle (1936)
 
DJUNA BARNES
La Somnambule (1937)
 
BARRY MILES
From The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs,
and Corso in Paris, 1957–63
 
JAMES BALDWIN
From Giovanni’s Room (1956)
 
JULIO CORTÁZAR
Blow-up (1959)
 
RAYMOND QUENEAU
From Zazie (1959)
 
GEORGES PEREC
From Things (1965)
 
RICHARD COBB
Paris Xe (1980)
 
MICHEL TOURNIER
From The Golden Droplet (1986)
 
PATRICK MODIANO
From Flowers of Ruin (1991)
 
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

About the Author

SHAUN WHITESIDE is a translator of French, German, Italian, and Dutch works. He lives in London.