PARISIANS: AN ADVENTURE HISTORY OF PARIS
Book ID/图书代码： 11701208B29947
English Summary/英文概要： No-one knows a city like the people who live there -- so who better to relate the history of Paris than its inhabitants through the ages? Taking us from 1700 to the new millennium, Graham Robb’s Parisians introduces us to spies, soldiers and emperors; adulterers, murderers, wives, mistresses and widows; to town-planners, prisoners and prostitutes. We meet police commissioners and novelists; photographers, philosophers and playwrights; we see, too, scientists and alchemists; factory girls with hands stained green by arsenic, and miners who wear garlands of crushed garlic and campion around their necks to protect them from poisonous gases. We visit underground caverns and catacombs; encounter political and sexual intrigues; witness real and would-be revolutions, assassination attempts and several all too successful executions. We are there for the opening of the Metro; we lose our way (but keep our heads) with Marie-Antoinette, learn that Emile Zola was terrified of lightning, and discover the true origins of Alexandre Dumas’s The Count of Monte-Cristo; we watch from the sidelines as Hitler visits the French capital and, finally, experience what life is like for some of the city’s modern-day ’visitors’ -- the immigrants who’ve made their home on the outskirts of Paris.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 作者Graham Robb曾以《发现法国》一书获得2008年英国皇家学会文学奖，其销量突破7.2万册。在《情迷巴黎》一书中，让我们暂时撇开这座浪漫之都的小资情调，听Graham Robb以他独特的口吻，将巴黎的历史娓娓道来。
从1700年到21世纪，本书为读者讲述了巴黎的过去：
间谍、士兵与皇帝；通奸，杀人，妻子，情妇和寡妇；城镇规划，囚犯和妓女。在他的叙述中，我们见到了警察专员和小说家；偶遇摄影师，哲学家和剧作家；惊叹于科学家和炼金术士的神秘研究；我们看到在工厂工作的女孩们，她们手上沾满了绿色的化学物质；矿工们则把大蒜捣碎后串成环戴在颈上，防止有害气体的侵袭。在作者的带领下，我们有幸参观了地下溶洞和墓穴，遭遇政治与性的阴谋，见证了数起成功或失败的革命、刺杀和处决。我们也亲历了地铁开通时的伟大时刻；与绝代艳后玛丽安东尼一同感受纷乱彷徨；发现著名小说家Emile Zola居然害怕闪电；同时找到了大仲马撰写《基督山伯爵》时的灵感起源。如此迷人的作品，钟情巴黎的你怎能错过？(RH)
Awards/获奖情况：Praise for the previous title, THE DISCOVERY OF FRANCE: “Few foreigners have immersed themselves in France as deeply as Graham Robb. The author of acclaimed biographies of Balzac, Hugo, and Rimbaud, this former Oxford academic has spent most of his professional life studying French literature and history. Yet Robb was conscious that his conception of France was almost entirely derived from a tiny circle of Parisian intellectuals who most of their compatriots would regard as aliens. Frustrated by his ignorance, Robb literally got on his bike and set out on a quest to discover the France of yesteryear… Robb’s book is scattered with such vivid gems… The reader is left hoping that Robb will hop back on his bike to explain how this rediscovered France evolved into the country it is today.”---The Financial Times
“Robb’s concise and fast-paced writing pedals along with never a dull paragraph, as facts, events, characters and quotations flash by… Robb, from his two-wheeled vantage point, has made a dazzling and moving contribution to a long tradition.”---The Times
“This splendid book – at once history, psychogeography, itinerary and cabinet of curiosities – owes much of its detail and charm to Robb’s own meticulous discovery of France.”---The Telegraph
About the Author/作者介绍： Graham Robb has lived in France for several long periods since 1976. His biographies of BALZAC (Whitbread Biography shortlist), VICTOR HUGO (Whitbread Biography winner; Heinemann Award) and RIMBAUD (Samuel Johnson shortlist) were all New York Times Editors’ Choices for best books of the year. His last book, THE DISCOVERY OF FRANCE, won the 2008 Royal Society of Literature Ondaatje Prize and has sold more than 72,000 copies. He reviews regularly for the Times Literary Supplement, the London Review of Books and the Daily Telegraph.
作者Graham Robb自1976年以后长期居于法国。他的人物传记作品《巴尔扎克》、《雨果》、《兰波》受到纽约时报主编的大力推荐。他的新作《发现法国》(THE DISCOVERY OF FRANCE)获得2008年英国皇家学会文学奖，其销量突破7.2万册。Graham Robb定期为《泰晤士报》文学副刊，《伦敦书评》和《每日电讯报》撰写评论。
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