Paris Stories

PREFACE
FRANCOIS RABELAIS
From Gargantua and Pantagruel (1534)
LAURENCE STERNE
From A Sentimental Journey through France and Italy
(1768)
RESTIF DE LA BRETONNE
From Les Nuits de Paris (1792)
HONORE DE BALZAC
From A Harlot High and Low (1838-47)
VICTOR HUGO
From Les Miserables (1862)
GUSTAVE FLAUBERT
From A Sentimental Education (1869)
EDMOND AND JULES DE GONCOURT
From Journals (1871)
EMILE ZOLA
From L'Assommoir (1880)
GUY DE MAUPASSANT
A Parisian Affair (1881)
VILLIERS DE L'lSLE-ADAM
The Unknown Woman (1883)
J. K. HUYSMANS
The Folies-Berg?re (1880)
ALPHONSE ALLAIS
The Polymyth (c. 1890)
COLETTE
From Claudine in Paris (1901)
LOUIS ARAGON
The Passage de l'Opera (1926)
JEAN RHYS
From Quartet (1928)
LOUIS-FERDINAND CELINE
From Journey to the End of the Night (1932)
F. SCOTT FITZGERALD
From Tender Is the Night (1934)
GEORGES SIMENON
In the Rue Pigalle (1936)
DJUNA BARNES
La Somnambule (1937)
BARRY MILES
From The Beat Hotel: Ginsberg, Burroughs, and Corso
in Paris, 1957-63
JAMES BALDWIN
From Giovanni's Room (1956)
JULIO CORTAZAR
Blow-up (1959)
RAYMOND QUENEAU
From Zazie (1959)
GEORGES PEREC From Things (1965)
RICHARD COBB
Paris Xe (1980)
MICHEL TOURNIER
From The Golden Droplet (1986)
PATRICK MODIANO
From Flowers of Ruin (1991)
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS