trin 's review for:

A Walk Through Paris: A Radical Exploration by Eric Hazan

2.0

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Hazan presupposes a lot of knowledge of French history, literature, and locations, and then spends a great deal of time naming things and quoting from his favorite books, but never actually described much of anything in a way that seemed vivid or made me feel like I was there. I appreciate the idea of a journey through Paris with a leftist slant, and maybe if Hazan were actually taking you around and showing you places and putting them into context, this would be informative, but as a book it did not work for me.