Paris - A literary invitation

Edited by Annette Wasserman

Paris: city of love and literature. This volume invites you to take a literary stroll through the metropolis on the Seine. contemporary texts; many translated for the first time; tell stories of places, people and the Parisian way of life.

Paris is myth and cliché. A place of longing. Backdrop for countless films and novels. Focus of European art, fashion, lifestyle. Birthplace of European Modernism. City of philosophers, writers, artists. A place to stroll over that can (and should) still be explored on foot today!
The texts of the most important contemporary French authors guide you through today's Paris, which is modern and at the same time thoroughly historical. Much of it has been translated specifically for this anthology for the first time.
Among the authors are: Didier Daeninckx, Marguerite Duras, Anna Gavalda, Eric Hazan, Michel Houellebecq, Patrick Modiano, Véronique Olmi, Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau, Jacques Réda, Jacques Roubaud, Annie Saumont, Michel Tournier, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Cécile Wajsbrot among others

Annette Wassermann studied general and comparative literature, modern history and French philology in Mainz, Dijon and Berlin. For many years she has worked in multiple positions at Wagenbach Verlag, including as an editor of French literature.

Verlag Klaus Wagenbach: Emser Str. 40/41, D-10719 Berlin