París era una rumba

Hemingway’s Paris was a party... and Zoé Valdés’s was a *rumba*. Numerous famous figures from the literary and artistic scene of the 1980s—Julio Cortázar, Samuel Beckett, Alberto Moravia, Cioran, Dora Maar...—come together in this boisterous, unsettling, and revealing book. It unfolds through a succession of diverse episodes, such as the one dedicated to the street of porn cinemas in Paris—a place the author ventured into not to watch the films being shown, but to observe the men in their trench coats and office suits. The human tableau captured in these pages portrays an indelible era of the Parisian metropolis and of the Europe that was—and forever will be—thanks to Valdés’s immense literary talent.