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Paris noir : the suburbs / edited by Hervé Delouche ; translation by Katie Shireen Assef, David Ball, Nicole Ball and Paul Curtis Daw.

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextLanguage: English Original language: French Series: French voicesPublisher: Brooklyn, New York : Akashic Books, [2022]Description: 264 pages ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9781617757556
  • 1617757551
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Summary: From the introduction by Herv? Delouche: The term Greater Paris is in vogue today, for it has an administrative cachet and seems to denote a simple extension of the capital?as if a ravenous Paris need only extend her web. However, it was not our goal to embrace the tenets of the metro area?s comprehensive plan, aka the Grand Projet, envisioned as a future El Dorado by the planners and developers. Rather, our aim was to depict the Parisian suburbs in all their plurality and diversity. Without pretending to encompass every spot on the map, we instead opted to give voice and exposure to the localities chosen by the writers who have been part of this adventure. Thus, we decided to adopt the word "suburbs"? in the plural, obviously, for the periphery of the capital is not a homogeneous bloc, nor is it reducible to a clich? like "the suburban ring" . . . Here are thirteen stories, decidedly noir, to be savored without sugar or sweetener.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

Here are thirteen stories of the Paris suburbs, decidedly noir, to be savoured without sugar or sweetener. Featuring brand-new stories from: Cloe Mehdi, Karim Madani, Insa Sane, Christian Roux, Marc Villard, Jean-Pierre Rumeau, Timothee Demeillers, Rachid Santaki, Marc Fernandez, Guillaume Balsamo, Anne Secret, Anne-Sylvie Salzman, and Patrick Pecherot. (All stories were written in French and translated into English.)

Translated from the French.

From the introduction by Herv? Delouche: The term Greater Paris is in vogue today, for it has an administrative cachet and seems to denote a simple extension of the capital?as if a ravenous Paris need only extend her web. However, it was not our goal to embrace the tenets of the metro area?s comprehensive plan, aka the Grand Projet, envisioned as a future El Dorado by the planners and developers. Rather, our aim was to depict the Parisian suburbs in all their plurality and diversity. Without pretending to encompass every spot on the map, we instead opted to give voice and exposure to the localities chosen by the writers who have been part of this adventure. Thus, we decided to adopt the word "suburbs"? in the plural, obviously, for the periphery of the capital is not a homogeneous bloc, nor is it reducible to a clich? like "the suburban ring" . . . Here are thirteen stories, decidedly noir, to be savored without sugar or sweetener.

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