'Eric Hazan's elegant, characteristically learned account of his journey throu contemporary Paris, written in a tone both intimate and authoritative, is at once a companionably unhurrie evocation of the city's rich, radical past and - at a time when capital is dramatically reorganizing its topograph a bracingly urgent intervention in debates about the city's future. As André Breton might have observed, there really are no lost steps here'
'Eric Hazan's elegant, characteristically learned account of his journey throu contemporary Paris, written in a tone both intimate and authoritative, is at once a companionably unhurrie evocation of the city's rich, radical past and - at a time when capital is dramatically reorganizing its topograph a bracingly urgent intervention in debates about the city's future. As André Breton might have observed, there really are no lost steps here'