Literature
Paris, When It's Naked
By Etel Adnan
A daily odyssey between the Rue Madame and Place Saint-Sulpice leads to an incredible construction of the living myth that Paris represents.
...places its author on the radical fringe...a minor classic...
—Carl Bankston III, American Book Review
This is writing inhabited by a severe hesitation, that nothing can be followed for very long—except, like the daily walks that trace, however haphazard, a circle, what is followed and dropped is come back to, a thread and pattern picked up again.
—Steve Dickison, Review of Contemporary Fiction
...Despite the multiplicity of her cultures and endeavors, these books (Paris, When It's Naked and Of Cities & Women) provide an excellent introduction to her unique blend of acute observation, emotional integrity, political clarity and philosophical speculation.
—Ammiel Alcalay, The Nation
More tempered and complicated is Paris, When It's Naked.
—The Village Voice
1993 115 pages $13.50 ISBN: 0-942996-20-8
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