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The existential Englishman : Paris among the artists / Michael Peppiatt.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: London, England : Bloomsbury, 2019Copyright date: ©2019Description: xiv, 361, [5] pages ; 25 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 1408891719
  • 9781408891711
Subject(s): Genre/Form: LOC classification:
  • N7485.F8 P37 2019
Summary: 'The Existential Englishman' is both a memoir and an intimate portrait of Paris - a city that can enchant, exhilarate and exasperate in equal measure. As Peppiatt remarks: 'You reflect and become the city just as the city reflects and becomes you'. This, then, is one man's not uncritical love letter to Paris. Intensely personal, candid and entertaining, it chronicles Peppiatt's relationship with Paris in a series of vignettes structured around the half-dozen addresses he called home as a plucky young art critic. Having survived the tumultuous riots of 1968, Peppiatt traces his precarious progress from junior editor to magazine publisher, recalling encounters with a host of figures at the heart of Parisian artistic life - from Sartre, Beckett and Cartier-Bresson to Serge Gainsbourg and Catherine Deneuve.
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Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

A love letter to Paris and a memoir of a life spent at its bohemian heart, rich with adventures, misadventures and the beauty of one of the most enduringly romantic cities in the world The Existential Englishman is both a memoir and an intimate portrait of Paris ­- a city that can enchant, exhilarate and exasperate in equal measure. As Peppiatt remarks: 'You reflect and become the city just as the city reflects and becomes you'. This, then, is one man's not uncritical love letter to Paris. Intensely personal, candid and entertaining, The Existential Englishman chronicles Peppiatt's relationship with Paris in a series of vignettes structured around the half-dozen addresses he called home as a plucky young art critic. Having survived the tumultuous riots of 1968, Peppiatt traces his precarious progress from junior editor to magazine publisher, recalling encounters with a host of figures at the heart of Parisian artistic life - from Sartre, Beckett and Cartier-Bresson to Serge Gainsbourg and Catherine Deneuve. Peppiatt also takes us into the secret places that fascinate him most in this ancient capital, where memories are etched into every magnificent palace and humble cobblestone. On the historic streets of Paris, where all life is on show and every human drama played out, Michael Peppiatt is the wittiest and wickedest of observers, capturing the essence of the city and its glittering cultural achievements.

Includes index.

Illustrated endpapers.

'The Existential Englishman' is both a memoir and an intimate portrait of Paris - a city that can enchant, exhilarate and exasperate in equal measure. As Peppiatt remarks: 'You reflect and become the city just as the city reflects and becomes you'. This, then, is one man's not uncritical love letter to Paris. Intensely personal, candid and entertaining, it chronicles Peppiatt's relationship with Paris in a series of vignettes structured around the half-dozen addresses he called home as a plucky young art critic. Having survived the tumultuous riots of 1968, Peppiatt traces his precarious progress from junior editor to magazine publisher, recalling encounters with a host of figures at the heart of Parisian artistic life - from Sartre, Beckett and Cartier-Bresson to Serge Gainsbourg and Catherine Deneuve.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

  • Preface (p. vii)
  • Part 1 (1966-69)
  • 1 Abroad! Abroad! (p. 3)
  • 2 Behind Duchamps Door: 12 me Larrey, Ve (p. 27)
  • 3 Street Theatre: 12 rue Larrey, Ve (p. 53)
  • 4 Loves Labyrinth: 17 rue de Poitou, IIIe (p. 77)
  • Part 2 (1969-77)
  • 5 The Empty Room: 17 rue de Poitou, IIIe (p. 109)
  • 6 Stone by Stone: II rue de Braque, IIIe (p. 137)
  • 7 One of Us: II rue de Braque, IIIe (p. 163)
  • 8 Entr'acte; 24bis rue de l'Abbé-Grégoire, VIe (p. 195)
  • Part 3 (1977-94)
  • 9 Laughing Boy: 77 rue des Archives, IIIe (p. 217)
  • 10 The Reckoning: 77 rue des Archives, IIIe (p. 247)
  • 11 Phoenix: 77 me des Archives, IIIe: 14 rue de Birague, IVe (p. 277)
  • 12 Fallout: 14 rue de Birague, IVe; 16 me Michel le Comte, IIIe (p. 307)
  • Postscript: Full Circle: 16 rue Michel le Comte, IIIe (2014-18) (p. 333)
  • Acknowledgements (p. 349)
  • Notes (p. 351)
  • Index (p. 353)

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