Parigi

06.11.2025

“At the Louvre. Lorrain with his peach-colored skies, his radiant light. Among all painters, no one has so wonderfully suggested what the lost country might be — that land of Elsewhere destined to haunt humanity forever.”

A walk through Paris — along its boulevards, stepping in and out of palaces and museums, climbing and descending staircases both famous and hidden.
This book is for those who love this city, and for those who don’t fully understand it.
Paris, as described by Julien Green — an American writer who spent most of his life in France — is an emotional and imagined place: a point of departure and beginning of stories, a blend of melancholy, sadness, and joy.
Paris is fragile and threatened, resistant to haste, cautious in revealing itself; it offers itself only to those capable of getting lost and seeing it with wonder and detachment.
Far from commerce and tourism, this is the Paris we love — an inner, secret world with a famous name.

Julien Green, Paris, translated by Marina Karan, Adelphi, 2023.