Edited by Annette Wassermann!

Paris: City of love and literature. This volume invites you to take literary strolls 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 a myth and a cliché. A place of longing. The setting for countless films and novels. The focal point of European art, fashion and lifestyle. The birthplace of European modernism. The city of philosophers, writers and artists. A place to stroll through, which can (and should) still be explored on foot today!
The texts of France's most important contemporary authors guide us through today's Paris, which is both modern and thoroughly historic. A large part of them has been translated for the first time especially for this anthology.
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 and 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 roles at Wagenbach Verlag, including as an editor of French literature.

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