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Last Nights of Paris
Soupault, Philippe; Williams, Carlos
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Paperback. Translator(s): Williams, Carlos. Num Pages: 182 pages, illustrations. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 201 x 151 x 12. Weight in Grams: 286.
Written in 1928 by one of the founders of the Surrealist movement, and translated the following year by William Carlos Williams (the two had been introduced in Paris by a mutual friend), Last Nights of Paris is related to Surrealist novels such as Nadja and Paris Peasant, but also to the American expatriate novels of its day such as Day of the Locust. The story concerns the narrator's obsession with a woman who leads him into an underworld that promises to reveal the secrets of the city itself ... and in Williams' wonderfully direct translation it reads like a lost ... Read more
Written in 1928 by one of the founders of the Surrealist movement, and translated the following year by William Carlos Williams (the two had been introduced in Paris by a mutual friend), Last Nights of Paris is related to Surrealist novels such as Nadja and Paris Peasant, but also to the American expatriate novels of its day such as Day of the Locust. The story concerns the narrator's obsession with a woman who leads him into an underworld that promises to reveal the secrets of the city itself ... and in Williams' wonderfully direct translation it reads like a lost ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2008
Publisher
Exact Change,U.S. United States
Number of pages
176
Condition
New
Number of Pages
182
Place of Publication
Bostone, United States
ISBN
9781878972057
SKU
V9781878972057
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