Paris is myth and cliché. A place of longing. Backdrop for countless films and novels. Focus of European art, fashion, lifestyle. Birthplace of European Modernism. The undisputed but hostile center of a centralized state that has been in place for centuries. City of philosophers, writers, artists. A place to stroll, which Walter Benjamin wrote about and which can (and should) still be explored on foot today. The texts of the most important contemporary French authors guide you through today's Paris, which is modern and at the same time thoroughly historic. Much of it has been translated specifically for this anthology for the first time. Among the authors are: Didier Daeninckx, Marguerite Duras, Anna Gavalda, Jean Genet, Eric Hazan, Michel Houellebecq, Patrick Modiano, Véronique Olmi, Georges Perec, Raymond Queneau, Jacques Reda, Jacques Roubaud, Annie Saumont, Michel Tournier, Jean-Philippe Toussaint, Cecile Wajsbrot and others
