{"product_id":"9780948462931","title":"Ruins of Paris (Topographics Series)","description":"\u003cbr\u003eFrom Belleville to Passy, from Montmartre to La-Butte-aux-Cailles, from Antony to Saint-Ouen – Jacques Réda is a traveler in his own city of Paris. In the tradition of Baudelaire and Rimbaud, he is a nervous, rather unleisurely flâneur, unsettling and subverting preconceived ideas about travel and home.\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThe Ruins of Paris\u003c\/i\u003e echoes with the footsteps and the words of a wanderer by turns gloomy, curious, troubled, elated, angry, tender and confused (and sometimes all these things at once). We are led through the \u003ci\u003earrondissements\u003c\/i\u003e and suburbs of Paris and beyond in a journey that moves to the rhythm of walking, of trains, to the hopeful tempo of upbeat jazz.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eRéda the wanderer is forever on the move: he constantly sets off, stops, begins afresh, treasuring movement itself while journeying from place to place. Journeys that are at once exhilarating and familiar, journeys that mirror life itself and a world that ceaselessly rises anew from its own ruins. Jacques Réda's book is both a poetic meditation on Paris and a haunting companion to its views and moods.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"In France, Jacques Réda's prose writings are passed back and forth between friends with the enthusiastic secret-sharing that one associates with fan clubs. Membership requirements include a taste for precise, tenderly ironic prose, polished to a delicacy of finish rarely attained by contemporary French writers.\"—John Taylor, \u003ci\u003eTimes Literary Supplement\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Reaktion Books, Limited","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47034124009712,"sku":"9780948462931","price":18.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780948462931_p0.jpg?v=1763863162","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780948462931","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}