“Paris est la grande salle
de lecture d’une bibliothèque
que traverse la Seine.”
Walter Benjamin (1892-1940)
Stroll the streets of Paris and discover that oh-so-French passion: the love of books. Centuries-old bookshops, quayside bouquinistes, writers' statues, literary cafés, libraries, poetry scenes and clubs reveal the extravagant bibliodiversity of Paris and the ceaseless ferment of the literary world. Paris is the world capital of books ! Alexis Margowski takes you by the hand for an astonishing dive that reveals another face of the capital. A photographic stroll enriched by a collection of rare texts by Victor Hugo, Marcel Proust, Adrienne Monnier, Julien Gracq, Arthur Rimbaud... and an anthology. 350 pages for the love of books, writers and thinkers of all time, in the streets of Paris. Paris is a book !
PARIS est un LIVRE is out on October 30th. Keribus editions.
