Bloom's Literary Guide To Paris

Bloom's Literary Guide/Literary Places

by Mike Gerrard, Harold Bloom

A tour guide of Paris and its role as a popular setting in literature.

Famed for its café culture, Paris has long been regarded as a city of love, light, and literature. Visitors to this dynamic city can choose from any number of cafés, museums, and cathedrals to get a feel for the city's rich literary history. Bloom's Literary Guide to Paris provides everything a literature lover needs to know to enjoy the city.

Features

Genres: Travel, Academia, Nonfiction

151 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 2004

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Reviews

[Peace · Rating 1 out of 5]

DON'T SUPPORT THIS TRIPE. Women of France are only mentioned as wives of husbands and never in their own right. Worst piece of trash I have read in quite some time.

[Jenny · Rating 3 out of 5]

Read this just before arriving in Paris. It's not a travel guide per se (though there is information in the back matter about museums and other attractions), but is, as it says, a literary (and historical) guide to Paris, providing a brief overview of many authors who were Parisians or spent time living and writing in Paris over the past few hundred years. Many interesting tidbits about various historical events as well as writers such as Voltaire, Baudelaire, Zola, Hugo, Balzac, and yes, Hemingway.

[Amy · Rating 4 out of 5]

A great overview of Paris's literary history and how it dovetails with Paris's history (wars, rulers, revolutions) in general. I'd recommend this to anyone who is visiting Paris and wants to see some important literary sites, but also to anyone who is interested in the topic at any rate.