Parizs! Parizs! by Irwin Shaw and Ronalad Searle

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1981. Vilagjarok. Illustrated. Hungarian.

A writer and an artist each presents his view of the magical and all embracing city. Irwin Shaw brings to life each stage of his affair with Paris, in a text which is extraordinary for its experience of actuality and for catching the atmosphere of Parisian life itself: eating a croissant at breakfast time in a cheap hotel near St Germain, watching the fountains playing at the Rond-Point, a stroll through the Bois de Boulogne, or just sitting at a cafe table 'because everything in Paris starts at a cafe table'. Ronald Searle, who worked independently on his satirical drawings, reflects brilliantly his own poignant view of the people and the city where he has spent many years. The book is thus a happy double exposure, witty, tender, sharply detached, ironic and civilized.