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Paris Noir
In Paris Noir Yonnet tells is about some of the darker quarters of Paris on the left bank of the Seine, centred on the place Mauberge and the rue Mouffetard, as seen from his own experience. It is mainly written during the 1940s, under the Occupation and in the immediate post-war period; there is a certain amount dealing with the resistance, but the main thrust of the book is a Paris that existed between the wars - and is well known from the film noir -but has since disappeared. It concentrates on the people, rather than places, a mixture of ordinary workers, tradesmen, artists, con-men and criminals. It invests the area with a sense of mystery including occasional supernatural events; it is...
Rue des Maléfices, Straße der Verwünschungen
Die Geheimnisse von Paris Das "größte Buch, das je über Paris geschrieben wurde" (Raymond Queneau): eine Art geheime Chronik des alten Paris, ein Kaleidoskop von Begegnungen und Begebenheiten während der Zeit der deutschen Besatzung. Yonnet, der in diesem Buch seine Erfahrungen als Widerstandskämpfer im Pariser Untergrund verarbeitet, findet Phantastisches und Mythisches im Alltäglichen, und schafft das verdichtete Portrait einer Stadt im Ausnahmezustand. Dabei entwickelt der schnelle Rhythmus seiner brüchigen Sprache, versetzt mit Straßenjargon und Lautsprachlichem, einen Sog von großer poetischer Kraft. Das als Meisterwerk gefeierte Buch blieb, neben einigen wenigen Theaterstücken, Gedichten und journalistischen Arbeiten, sein einziges Werk.
Rue des Maléfices
Raymond Queneau regardait Rue des Maléfices comme le plus grand livre jamais écrit sur Paris ; un livre qui l’empêchait même de dormir tant les histoires «vraies» que Jacques Yonnet raconte ne sont pas de tout repos. Fin connaisseur des venelles sombres et des garnis de la rive gauche, ce dernier parle du quotidien des artisans, voyous et gouailleuses de cette vieille capitale qui est « comme une mare, avec ses couleurs, ses reflets, ses fraîcheurs et sa bourbe, ses bouillonnement, ses maléfices, sa vie latente ». À la manière d’un Cendrars, Jacques Yonnet évoque, par les faits divers et les drames, le quotidien de ce monde aujourd’hui disparu : Paris mystérieux où la Bi...
Rue des Maléfices
Jacques Yonnet racconta con una poesia sottile e ironica il vero ventre parigino attraverso i suoi aspetti più insoliti: storie sorprendenti e sospese, probabilmente romanzate ma su cui tuttora c’è chi è pronto a giurare, racconti senza tempo che si incrociano con i rumori e le paure di una città violata da uno straniero odiato e barbaro; di fronte all’occupante nazista Parigi si chiude a riccio e sembra voler meditare sulla propria storia, raccontandola al cronista sensibile come un grandioso atto di scongiuro. Rue des Maléfices è un libro aspro, denso, pervaso da un’atmosfera unica e originalissima che pare volersi mimetizzare con le pietre, le strade, le “piazze della città...
Paris at War
David Drake chronicles the lives of ordinary Parisians during WWII, drawing on diaries and reminiscences of people who endured these years. From his account emerge the broad rhythms and shifting moods of the city and the contingent lives of resisters, collaborators, occupiers, and victims who, unlike us, could not know how the story would end.
Sustaining a City's Culture and Character
Somewhere, between character and caricature, there exists an authentic—a truly unique—urban place, that blends global and local, old and new. Yet, in a dramatically changing world dominated by crises of climate change, maintaining public health, and social justice, finding such places—and explaining their relevance—may be easier said than done. Sustaining a City’s Culture and Character accepts that challenge, and provides a comprehensive method for assessing how and why successful places come to be, with an explicit emphasis on context: Authenticity, culture, character, and uniqueness are words with meanings that depend on who is using them and in what contexts. Through text interw...
Street Noises
Street Noises combines the diverse materials of mass culture with literary and archival sources, to produce an innovative and critical re-reading of twentieth-century Paris as the city of the people and of cultural modernity. It concentrates on popular song and opera, cultural theory and records of police surveillance (such as the unpublished archives concerning the sexual mores of sailors in Toulon), sensational weekly magazines (including the weekly Detective Magazine with its remarkable photomontage) and writers of the Academie Goncourt. The author picks out their common realisation of the experience of the city, also showing how the faits divers and the entertainment industries frame the writing of a Benjamin, a Colette or a Genet. Rifkin re-works modern critical theory through these sources, reflecting on its relation to the production of mass cultures.
Paris Isn't Dead Yet
The Paris of popular imagination is lined with cobblestone streets and stylish cafés, a beacon for fashionistas and well-heeled tourists. But French American journalist Cole Stangler, celebrated for his reporting on Paris and French politics, argues that the beating heart of the City of Light lies elsewhere – in the striving, working-class districts, where residents are now being priced out. Paris Isn't Dead Yet explores the past, present and future of the city through the lens of class conflict, highlighting the outsized role of immigrants in shaping the city's progressive, cosmopolitan and open-minded character – at a time when politics nationwide can feel like they're shifting in the...
