life what ...

"Living in Paris, spend a few days like this is stolen." Antoine-Gaël Marquet is a young writer of 26 years who lives in Montmartre. A perfect vantage point to watch Paris. To fall in love, too. Hate it, sometimes. But in any case be fascinated enough to devote an entire novel. And not nimporte which: a first novel. In it, the city stretches, sprawling to occupy all pages. Any space. BE far only a decoration, Paris behaves in this book into a real character with many facets. Paris, this young woman to the undeniable beauty. Paris, this tired prostitute. Paris, this old fragile woman. This latent corpse. Between love and hate, disgust and fascination, the author gives us in this first book passed the thousand faces of the capital. Of course, there are also characters of flesh and back, but could as well be allegories of the city itself. In particular the main character, as follows lon throughout this first novel, between wandering subway, sex, culinary experiences far doccasions of get caught up with him in the city but also to reflect on the meaning of existence, there are sil a. "Life what."

So a novel or book Parisians love with this city? Not at all. Through a demanding and hard-hitting style, Antoine Gabriel Book a look at universal questions and managed to achieve at the same time a fascinating painting Paris. With photos of the artist Zofie Taueber, where the city alongside the supernatural, each chapter takes us into a urban dunivers slice. Gray. Cynical. And so just

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