John Baxer and Samuel Lopez Barrantes request your attendance at the next Paris Writers Salon - Links and contents provided

John Baxter writes:

Dear Everyone,

We’re happy to announce the next Paris Writers Salon.  Details can be found here.

https://www.johnbaxterparis.com/paris-writers-salon

Hope to see and talk with you from our apartment in the heart of literary Paris.

A bientot,

John

The books are

Anthony Doerr’s All the Light We Cannot See (2014)

In this Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, the stories of an imaginatively gifted blind girl in France and a technically precocious young man in Germany intersect in a crucial battle taking place in the Channel coastal city of Saint-Malo. 

Albert Camus’ The Fall (1956)

The Fall was the last completed novel by one of the giants of modern French literature and thought, Albert Camus. (He died in 1960 in an auto accident, aged only 47, three years after winning the Nobel Prize.) Clamence, the Parisian jurist through whose eyes Camus sees the war and its aftermath, struggles with the same sense of futility that motivated Sartre, originally Camus's closest friend (then his rival) to develop existentialism.

John Baxter’s Five Nights in Paris (2015)

John Baxter's Five Nights in Paris explores some of the ways in which Paris after dark becomes a very different city. Using examples ranging from Woody Allen to the surrealist Philippe Soupault, he shows how the certainties of a tourist Paris give way after dark to something more fantastic and dream-like, ruled by the unlikely and improbable.

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John Baxter (above left with Samuel Lopez Barrantes) is an Australian-born writer, scholar, critic and film-maker who has lived in Paris since 1989. The many books he has written include the first ever critical volume devoted to the Australian cinema as well as studies of Ken Russell, Josef von Sternberg, Stanley Kubrick, Woody Allen, Federico Fellini, George Lucas, Robert De Niro, Luis Bunuel and a number of studies of Paris. His most recent book is a biography of Charles Boyer: The French Lover  (University of Kentucky Press, 2021)