Paris Metro Tales

1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-0-19-957980-8
Verlag: Oxford University Press(UK)

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Format (B × H): 129 mm x 198 mm, Gewicht: 360 g

Follow-up to Helen Constantine's hugely successful Paris Tales
Writers include Colette, Honoré de Balzac, Guy de Maupassant, and Émile Zola
Each tale evokes a different aspect of this enchanting and much-loved city
Some stories have been translated for the first time
A suggested itinerary for the real or virtual traveller, a metro map, and photographs complement the stories

Following on from Helen Constantine's hugely successful Paris Tales, the twenty-two short stories included in More Metro Tales take the reader on an fascinating journey around Paris by metro. The journey begins at the Gare du Nord, stops at twenty underground stations along the way, and ends at Lamarck-Caulaincourt. Some of these stories actually take place in the metro itself, but most are to be found when you emerge above ground. They range from the 15th-century account of the miraculous Saint Genevieve, patron saint of Paris, through tales by favourite writers such as Zola, Simenon, and Maupassant, to Martine Delerm's evocation of the last hours of Modigliani's mistress, Jeanne Hébuterne. Gérard de Nerval evokes the thriving, bustling market in Les Halles in the 1850s; Colette recounts her involvement in a traffic accident near the Opéra; Boulanger describes a blackly funny experience in Père Lachaise.

Each story is illustrated with a black-and-white photograph and there is a map and suggested itinerary round the metro system. Readers will find familiar and unfamiliar writers here, but all are masterly writers of the short story and each evokes a different aspect of this endlessly intriguing and much-loved city, whether the traveller is on the metro or at home sitting in an armchair.

Zielgruppe

Readers of literature in general and short stories in particular; visitors to Paris; travellers and armchair travellers.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Constantine, Helen

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
Jacques Réda: Gare du Nord
Julien Green: Saint-Julien-le-Pauvre
Daniel Boulanger: Summer Rain
Colette: A Little Accident
Annie Saumont: If it were Sunday
Honoré de Balzac: Facino Cane
Frédéric Fajardie: Rue des Larmes
Paul Fournel: Story
Martine Delerm: There or Elsewhere
Jacques de Voragine: Saint Genevieve
Martine Delerm: Expomodigliani.com
Guy de Maupassant: Minuet
Émile Zola: Snow
Gérard de Nerval: La Halle
Andrée Chedid: Confronting the Present
Théodore de Banville: The Cab
Georges Simenon: The Little Restaurant at Ternes
Claude Dufresne: Romance in the Metro
Cyrille Fleischman: The Neighbour in the Rue de Jarente
Guy de Maupassant: The Landlady
Gérard de Nerval: La Butte Montmartre
Notes on the Metro
Notes on the Stories
Notes on the Authors
Selected Further Reading
Publisher's Acknowledgements
Map of metro

Über Autor(innen)

Constantine, Helen
Helen Constantine taught languages in schools until 2000, when she became a full-time translator. She has published two volumes of translated stories, Paris Tales and French Tales, and is currently editing a series of City Tales for Oxford University Press. She has translated Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier and Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos for Penguin. She is married to the writer David Constantine and with him edits the international magazine Modern Poetry in Translation.

Helen Constantine taught languages in schools until 2000, when she became a full-time translator. She has published two volumes of translated stories, Paris Tales and French Tales, and is currently editing a series of City Tales for Oxford University Press. She has translated Mademoiselle de Maupin by Théophile Gautier and Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos for Penguin. She is married to the writer David Constantine and with him edits the international magazine Modern Poetry in Translation.

Contributors:
Jacques Réda
Julien Green
Daniel Boulanger
Colette
Annie Saumont
Honoré de Balzac
Frédéric Fajardie
Paul Fournel
Martine Delerm
Jacques de Voragine
Martine Delerm
Guy de Maupassant
Émile Zola
Gérard de Nerval
Andrée Chedid
Théodore de Banville
Georges Simenon
Claude Dufresne
Cyrille Fleischman
Guy de Maupassant
Gérard de Nerval