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Palace of Books
Palace of Books | Roger Grenier
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As a book editor for five decades and himself a prolific author, Roger Grenier has known some of the twentieth century's greatest writers, from his mentor Albert Camus to Romain Gary and Jean-Paul Sartre. Here, inPalace of Books, he offers a witty and profound set of essays around the question of literature in the broadest sense of the term. Teeming with anecdote and elegant flashes of insight, the essays reflect on the ways we hold our favorite writers dear, almost like members of the family. Like a modern Montaigne, Grenier wears his vast culture lightly and with a sense of humor, and discusses the craft of writing with disarming modesty. He addresses writers' anxieties, such as the perennial Do I Have Anything Left To Say? while also taking on related themes, like the experience of waiting, be it in the army, before eternity, or in the dentist's office. Grenier brings the reader closer to all the writers he evokes, and they are many:, Rousseau, Stendhal, Flaubert, Camus, Proust, Beckett, Barthes, Conrad, Hemingway, Fitzgerald, O'Flannery, Tolstoy, and Musil. It is like a wonderful literary party hosted by Roger Grenier and to which we have all been invited.
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peacegypsy
Palace of Books | Roger Grenier
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This Parisian stroll through literature sounds exactly like what I need. I‘m lonely for Paris and, as always, lonely for the many books I‘ve yet to read. 🎈

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PagesOfKate
Palace of Books | Roger Grenier
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Ooh. A rather lovely looking parcel has just arrived! Roll on tomorrow!
#nonfictionbookexchange #NFBE
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ErickaS_Flyleafunfurled I love the sticker!! 😂 7y
Ddzmini 😖🐴🙈😨 7y
heikemarie Oooh! 7y
RadicalReader @PagesOfKate tomorrow tomorrow I love you tomorrow, you‘re only a day away!! 7y
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mjdowens
Palace of Books | Roger Grenier

You know life and stress is just too much when you get book mail and don't even remember ordering them or even when you ordered them. A parents illness can affect so much of your daily life. Reading Litsy posts daily has been such a lifesaver.

8little_paws 😔 sorry to hear about your parent 8y
jfalkens Hope your parent is OK xxxxx 8y
BarbaraTheBibliophage Aww. I totally hear you. My mom was ill for years before she passed. Nothing quite compares. 💕 8y
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Obviousstate
Palace of Books | Roger Grenier
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"Here is a 'palace of books' where Proust, Flaubert, Nabokov, Flannery O'Connor, Chekhov, Baudelaire and Kafka wander happily alongside the author's own friends and colleagues--Romain Gary, Jean-Paul Sartre, Claude Roy--and his mentor, Albert Camus."

MrBook Nice pic! 8y
Obviousstate @MrBook Thank you! 8y
KimM Is that lavender and cucumber water? 8y
Obviousstate @KimM It's Prosecco with thyme and plum. 😉 8y
Gissy Looks so refresh those beverages! 8y
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