Honoré de Balzac

Paul Morand

Anne-Marie Meininger

Le Lys dans la vallée

Pierre gâche tout, l'amitié, l'amour, la paternité, par sa hâte fébrile à précipiter le temps. A cette allure vertigineuse, il ne goûte plus ce qui fait le prix de la vie, ni les moments d'intimité que sa femme Hedwige lui ménage, ni la poésie des choses. Il se consume et consume les siens en fonçant vers un but qu'il renouvelle, chaque fois qu'il l'atteint. " A quoi reconnaître qu'on est arrivé si l'on ne s'arrête jamais ? demande la sage Hedwige. Pierre saura trop tôt qu'il ne se hâtait ainsi que pour arriver plus vite au rendez-vous de la mort.

L'homme pressé

Jules Barbey d'Aurevilly

Edition originale, 1851. Récit romancé d'une expérience amoureuse vécue. Impitoyable dissection d'une liaison de l'auteur, en 1843, "avec une Espagnole chaude et perverse" (cf. la préface, p. 7-23). Dossier, p. 497-537 (chronologie, dédicaces, histoire du roman, notes, etc.).

Une vieille maîtresse

Euan Cameron

The story of Coco Chanel's life, as told by her to Paul Morand

The Allure of Chanel

Brassaï

A new edition of the classic originally published in 1932 brings together sixty images of the City of Light's back alleys, metro stations, bistros, and people.

Paris by Night

Bug Shea (Collection Alphee)

Coco Chanel

Gespräche mit Coco Chanel

Die Kunst, Chanel zu sein

Venices

Stories set in postwar Europe deal with a Spanish anarchist, a White Russian emigrant, love affairs, dancers, and young men and women trying to start new lives

Fancy Goods ; Open All Night

A feverish classic from one of the modern masters of French prose. No one can keep up with Pierre Niox, the speediest antiques dealer in Paris, although not necessarily the most competent. As he dashes about at a dizzying pace, his impatience becomes too much to bear for those around him; his manservant, his only friend and even his cat abandon him. He begins to find that while he is racing through life, it is passing him by. However, when he falls in love with the languid, unpunctual Hedwige, the man in a hurry has to learn how to slow down.

The man in a hurry

Tender shoots

Tout ce qui s'était passé à Paris pendant mes années d'absence confirmait la révolution des moeurs amorcée en 1917. Une génération revenait de la guerre, écourée d'hier, curieuse de demain, de ceux qui sauraient l'expliquer à elle-même, lui révéler le monde nouveau, lui faire l'inventaire géographique de son logis, la planète.

Ouvert la nuit

Henry James

Arthur Schnitzler

Cecily Gayford

Regis Debray

Paul Morand Regis Debray Petr Kral Henry James Arthur Schnitzler

Petr Kral

The best of Pushkin Press on the iconic city.

In Search of Venice

These three stories, about a trio of independent young women, are set in London:a city Paul Morand loved and which continued to fascinate him long after he worked there as an attaché at the French embassy from 1913 to 1916. Composed around the time of the First World War, these stylish, poetic and highly original tales came as a breath of fresh air on the French literary scene of the Twenties. They made an immediate impact on writers as diverse as Cocteau and Giraudoux, as well as Marcel Proust, a great friend and supporter of Morand, who subsequently contributed a foreword for the book.

Tender Shoots

Une biographie de celui dont Flaubert disait : "Il a le faciès d'un petit taureau breton."

Vie de Guy de Maupassant

A poetic evocation of the French diplomat's encounters and experiences, filtered through the one constant in his life—Venice.Diplomat, writer and poet, traveller and socialite, friend of Proust, Giraudoux and Malraux, Paul Morand was out of the most original writers of the twentieth century. He was French literature's globe-trotter, and his delightful autobiography is far from being yet another account of a writer's life. Instead it is a poetic evocation of certain scenes among Morand's rich and varied encounters and experience, filtered through the one constant in his life—the one place to which he would always return—Venice.Admired both by Ezra Pound and by Marcel Proust as a pioneer craftsman of Modernist French prose (...) The sheer shapeliness of his prose recalls Hemingway; the urbanity of his self-destructiveness compares with Fitzgerald's; and his camera eye is as lucidly stroboscopic as that of Dos Passos. He is, like Victor Segalen, Blaise Cendrars, Valery Larbaud, and Saint-John Perse, one of the great nomads of 20th-century French literature, racing through the apocalypse with the haste and glamor of an Orient Express. It is a pity we should have had to wait this long to catch up with him. --The New York TimesVenices is balanced by the sharpness of the imagery. He writes in a melancholy vein of the loves, jealousies and regrets he has experienced in Venice ... Exquisitely translated, Venices is a travel memoir of the highest order. -- IAN THOMSON, Sunday Times

Le visiteur du soir, suivi de quarante-cinq lettres inédites de Marcel Proust

Roaming Paris streets by night in the early 1930s, Brassaï created arresting images of the city's dramatic nocturnal landscape.The back alleys, metro stations, and bistros he photographed are at turns hauntingly empty or peopled by prostitutes, laborers, thugs, and lovers.'Paris by Night', first published in French in 1932, collected sixty of these images, which have since become photographic icons.This new edition brings one of Brassaï's finest works back into print. 'Paris by Night' is a stunning portrait of nighttime in the City of Light, as captured by its most articulate observer.

Paul Morand

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