Simon Johns
@penjohns.bsky.social
Reader, sometimes writer. www.penjohns.com
L’Huma is making a historical parallel here – #Chienlit a word that to French readers is strongly associated with another period of political crisis, 1968…
October 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
L’Huma is making a historical parallel here – #Chienlit a word that to French readers is strongly associated with another period of political crisis, 1968…
Too many favourites to choose from! Here’s a soulful stanza by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore.
March 21, 2025 at 10:38 AM
Too many favourites to choose from! Here’s a soulful stanza by Marceline Desbordes-Valmore.
“He died old and impoverished in a retirement home outside Paris, his long white beard having caught fire on a candle.”
It could be one of Fénéon’s ‘Nouvelles en trois lignes’.
It could be one of Fénéon’s ‘Nouvelles en trois lignes’.
March 5, 2025 at 12:04 PM
“He died old and impoverished in a retirement home outside Paris, his long white beard having caught fire on a candle.”
It could be one of Fénéon’s ‘Nouvelles en trois lignes’.
It could be one of Fénéon’s ‘Nouvelles en trois lignes’.
As for ‘A Rebours’ – I started it in the Folio edition, but only read the whole thing, years later, in an Imprimerie Nationale copy I picked up for a song at Galigniani. Was delighted to discover, on p200-odd, that said bookshop was where Des Esseintes bought his Baedeker!
March 3, 2025 at 9:49 AM
As for ‘A Rebours’ – I started it in the Folio edition, but only read the whole thing, years later, in an Imprimerie Nationale copy I picked up for a song at Galigniani. Was delighted to discover, on p200-odd, that said bookshop was where Des Esseintes bought his Baedeker!
Yes indeed. And I’m impressed that any non-academic UK publisher would bring out a book on Huysmans in the 2020s. Chapeau, @reaktionbooks.bsky.social.
March 3, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Yes indeed. And I’m impressed that any non-academic UK publisher would bring out a book on Huysmans in the 2020s. Chapeau, @reaktionbooks.bsky.social.
“La bêtise n’est pas mon fort” – one of French lit’s great opening lines!
March 3, 2025 at 9:30 AM
“La bêtise n’est pas mon fort” – one of French lit’s great opening lines!
Great piece! And nice to see mention of Robert Baldick, translator of 'A Rebours' and also author of an earlier life of Huysmans (OUP, 1955).
February 28, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Great piece! And nice to see mention of Robert Baldick, translator of 'A Rebours' and also author of an earlier life of Huysmans (OUP, 1955).
“Être parisien, ce n'est pas être né à Paris, c'est y renaître.” (Sacha Guitry)
Et c’est mon cas. ♥️
Et c’est mon cas. ♥️
February 19, 2025 at 6:59 PM
“Être parisien, ce n'est pas être né à Paris, c'est y renaître.” (Sacha Guitry)
Et c’est mon cas. ♥️
Et c’est mon cas. ♥️
Would that be the association 9ème Histoire?
9ème Histoire
9e histoire, 9ème Histoire, Société pour l'étude du patrimoine et de l'histoire du 9e arrondissement de Paris, neufhistoire,
www.neufhistoire.fr
February 15, 2025 at 4:37 PM
Would that be the association 9ème Histoire?