Contemporary Paris through American & French Fiction

Reading Paris: Solitude & Alienation

What happens when a person becomes detached from ordinary social life and begins to experience Paris through solitude, anonymity, and drift?

• The Woman in the Fifth Douglas Kennedy (2007)
• A Man Asleep / Un homme qui dort Georges Perec (1967)

A side by side reading and discussion to explore how different viewpoints approach similar ideas and what new insights emerge from the comparison.