Paris Street Tales

Erscheinungsjahr 2016
ISBN: 978-0-19-873679-0
Verlag: Oxford University Press

Buch, Englisch, 262 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 195 mm, Gewicht: 289 g

Reihe: City Tales

Paris Street Tales is the third volume of a trilogy of translated stories set in Paris. The previous two are Paris Tales, in which each story is associated with one of the twenty arrondissements, and Paris Metro Tales, in which the twenty-two stories are related to a trip round the Paris Metro. This new volume contains eighteen newly translated stories related to particular streets in Paris, and one newly written tale of the city.
The stories range from the nineteenth century to the present day, and include tales by well-known writers such as Colette, Maupassant, Didier Daeninckx, and Simenon, and less familiar names such as Francis Carco, Aurélie Filipetti, and Arnaud Baignot. They present a vivid picture of Paris streets in a variety of literary styles and tones. Simenon's Maigret is called upon to solve a mystery on the Boulevard Beaumarchais; a flâneur learns some French history through second-hand objects retrieved from the Seine; a nineteenth-century affair in the Rue de Miromesnil goes badly wrong; a body is discovered on the steps of the smallest street in Paris. Through these stories we see how the city has changed over the last two centuries and what has survived. All the tales in the book are translated apart from the last, a new story by David Constantine, based on the last days of the poet Gérard de Nerval.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Weitere Mitwirkende

Constantine, Helen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

- 1: Didier Daeninckx: Rue des Degrés

- 2: Jean Follain: Streets

- 3: Guy de Maupassant: The Rendezvous

- 4: Octave Mirbeau: Tableau Parisien

- 5: Arnaud Baignot: Rue de la Tacherie

- 6: Émile Zola: Old Iron

- 7: Marcel Aymé: Rue Saint Sulpice

- 8: Jacques Réda: The Freedom of the Streets

- 9: Frédéric H. Fajardie: A Rapist's Shout One Night in Montparanasse

- 10: Julien Green: Lost Street Cries

- 11: Joris-Karl Huysmans: Rue de la Chine

- 12: Georges Simenon: The Affair in the Boulevard Beaumarchais

- 13: Roland Dorgelès: Rooftop over the Champs Elysées

- 14: Vincent Ravalec: The pigeon who shat on people

- 15: Aurélie Filipetti: The Street is not enough

- 16: Francis Carco: Rue Pigalle

- 17: Sidonie-Gabrielle Colette: The hold-up in the Rue Ordener

- 18: Gisèle Prassinos: The Tree with three branches

- 19: David Constantine: Rue de la Vieille Lanterne

Über Autor(innen)

Helen Constantine taught languages in schools until 2000, when she became a full-time translator. She has published three volumes of translated stories, Paris Tales, Paris Metro Tales, and French Tales. She is general editor of City Tales for Oxford University Press. Her translations include Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier and Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos for Penguin, The Wild Ass's Skin by Balzac, The Conquest of Plassans by Zola, and Flaubert's A Sentimental Education for OUP.