Coffee since its inception
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It has attracted countless celebrities from all walks of life
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or romantic, or poetic, or uninhibited, or immortal
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Existential Cafe
Author: Sarah Bakewell
Beijing United Publishing Company丨Publishing
Unread Thinker丨Produced by Thinker
Three friends were sitting in a gaslight bar on Boulevard Montparnasse drinking apricot cocktails. One of them, Raymond Aron, was praising phenomenology, a new philosophy he had discovered in Germany, to fellow philosophers Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir. "You see," he said, "if you're a phenomenologist, you can talk about this cocktail and then work out philosophy from it!" ”
There are a few red-faced people sitting in the Flower God Café, and several of them are about to set off a worldwide storm of existentialist philosophy. "Existential Cafe" combines history, biography and philosophy, read this book, start from Jiantou Bookstore Flower God Cafe→ "Flower God Cafe" is airborne on the North Bund~
A Flowing Feast
Author: Ernest Hemingway
Published by Shanghai Translation Publishing House
"If you are lucky enough to have lived in Paris as a young man, she will be with you wherever you go for the rest of your life, because Paris is a feast of flow."
Hemingway wrote about the "golden Paris" of his memory, the people who wrote in the cafés, the young people wandering the streets in confusion, the drunks who drank wine and literature in the taverns, and the wonderful group portraits of the characters brought the long-hidden historical details to life again. The ambiguous words that have passed away are clearly rewritten and rewritten, all mixed into a common historical memory of Paris. As the saying goes, "Paris is never finished". In this "Flowing Feast", meet everyone who is dislocated in time and space......
Youth Cafe
Author: Modiano
People's Literature Publishing House丨Published
Produced by 99 Readers丨
Today, I finally understood that the books she was reading were not about looking for a code of conduct. She just wanted to escape, to escape farther away, to cut off the connection with everyday life in a drastic way, and to breathe the air of freedom. ”
"Café of Youth" is one of Modiano's heartbreaking works. In the Latin Quarter on the left bank of the Seine in Paris, near the Jardin du Luxembourg, there is a café called Conté. Like a giant magnet, it attracts a group of young people between the ages of eighteen and twenty-five......
Shakespeare & Company
Author: Sylvia
Yilin Publishing House丨Published
In 1919, Shakespeare & Company quietly opened on the Left Bank of Paris. Gradually, it became the bookstore of people's dreams – a bookstore, a library, a publishing house; It is a bank, a post office, a cultural salon; It is a stronghold for literati and scholars, a center for the exchange of English and French literature, and a spiritual temple for the "lost generation".
Sylvia writes straightforwardly and wittily about the bustling Left Bank...... Guarding this castle made of books, Sylvia, a simple book lover, witnesses a legend in the literary world that is connected with books.
"Reminiscences of the Lost Years"
Author: Proust
Shanghai Literature and Art Publishing House丨Published
Produced by Xinxingsi丨
Memory saves everything, time destroys everything. Between memory and the folds of time, Proust reinvents a world.
Proust's cafés are witnesses to those lazy afternoons. Here, the protagonist shares the moments of life with his friends, talking about dreams and the future. Those seemingly trivial daily lives have been given a different meaning in the corner of the café and have become an indelible memory in their hearts. A masterpiece of French literature that cannot be missed, a milestone in world literature in the twentieth century, starting with the reading of "Reminiscences of the Lost Years".
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