My Paris (Lannan Selection)

by Gail Scott

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In My Paris, a Canadian woman keeps an extraordinary journal of her time in a Parisian studio. Not a typical tourist, she prefers indoor spaces, seeing Paris go by on TV or watching from her window the ever-changing displays of men's designer clothing across the boulevard. Or she roams the streets, caught between nostalgia and a competing sense of the present day, between Paris's rich cultural traditions and the realities of Western imperialism. Disillusioned by her inability to reconcile these contradictions and by her own part in perpetuating them, she assembles in her journal pieces of the present, past, of art, philosophy, of herself, and of the world outside her.
  • ISBN10 1564782972
  • ISBN13 9781564782977
  • Publish Date 16 October 2003 (first published 16 May 1999)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Out of Print 27 January 2021
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Dalkey Archive Press
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 138
  • Language English