Tonight in London, Eric Hazan, author of The Invention of Paris, joins Iain Sinclair in conversation at the Institut Francais to discuss ‘Text and the City: Paris and London.’
Hazan is a radical publisher (La Fabrique editions) who originally published the Invisible Committee’s The Coming Insurrection.
Coming soon on 3:AM: A review of his book, and an interview with the author.
‘In the 1950s there were still good reasons for visiting the Champs-Elysees [...] But today, especially after the recent “improvements”, the Champs-Elysees is more like the duty-free mall of an international airport, decorated in a style that is a mixture of pseudo-Haussmann and pseudo-Bauhaus, as revisited by Jean-Claude Decaux.’
(Eric Hazan, The Invention of Paris, 121)
First posted: Wednesday, March 3rd, 2010.
