WRITERS IN PARIS by David Burke '54

Literary detective David Burke explores the most creative quartiers of the City of Light the Latin Quarter and the Marais, raffish Montmartre, “Lost Generation” Montparnasse, and others and tracks down the haunts of dozens of the world’s finest and most colorful writers in this unique look at literature’s greatest city. From native Parisians such as Molière and Marcel Proust to expatriates like Henry Miller and Samuel Beckett, Writers in Paris follows their artistic struggles and miraculous breakthroughs, along with the splendors and miseries of their invariably complicated personal lives.

Burke also pinpoints key places in the lives of fictional characters, including Gargantua’s ribald visit to the towers of Notre Dame and Vladimir and Estragon’s wobbly first step onto the stage of an obscure little Le Bank theater.

With maps, descriptions, and more than one hundred photographs, Writers in Paris is a fascinating, fresh way of looking at the city, and its unparalleled role in literature, for lovers of Paris and literary history alike.

Burke is a writer and documentary filmmaker who went to Paris in 1986 for what he thought would be a stay of one year, but turned into more than twenty. He now divides his time between Paris and the United States.

With more than one hundred stunning pictures and detailed maps, David Burke takes us on a tour through the Parisian lives of writers such as Honoré de Balzac, Simone de Beauvoir, William Burroughs, Albert Camus, Jacques Casanova, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, James Fenimore Cooper, Alexandre Dumas, Marguerite Duras, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Ernest Hemingway, Allen Ginsberg, Langston Hughes, James Joyce, Jim Morrison, George Orwell, Marcel Proust, François Rabelais, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Marquis de Sade, George Sand, Jean-Paul Sartre, Gertrude Stein, Edith Wharton, Richard Wright and Émile Zola

	This week, the author will be appearing on:   Thursday, June 19 at 6:30pm University of Connecticut Bookshop 2075 Hillside Road, Storrs, CT    Saturday, June 21 from 1pm to 3pm Atticus Cafe and Book Shop 1082 Chapel Street New Haven, CT     For more information, visit David Burke's website.
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