Luc Sante: 8 books

París, la ciudad de las paradojas ! París es la ciudad de la gastronomía delicada, de la alta costura y del alarde intelectual. Pero a la sombre de estos grandes hitos latía una ciudad fascinante: la de los pobres, los excluidos, los criminales, los inconformistas. En El populacho de París,...

In his books and in a string of wide-ranging and inventive essays, Luc Sante has shown himself to be not only one of our pre-eminent stylists, but also a critic of uncommon power and range. He is “one of the handful of living masters of the American language, as well as a singular historian and philosopher...

Following Low Life, Luc Sante's acclaimed evocation of the underside of New York City's history, Evidence is an investigation into the mysteries of crime, death, and photography that only this brilliant and original writer could conduct. In one sense Evidence is a picture book - a collection...

Este libro no trata sobre la historia canónica de Nueva York. No hay inmigrantes pobres que dan la vuelta a su fortuna, ni filántropos dadivosos inaugurando hospitales, ni bardos que gloriquen sus rascacielos. Este libro es más bien un desfile de rufianes —en bandas callejeras, en partidos políticos...

A trip through Paris as it will never be again-dark and dank and poor and slapdash and truly bohemian Paris, the City of Light, the city of fine dining and seductive couture and intellectual hauteur, was until fairly recently always accompanied by its shadow: the city of the poor, the outcast,...

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The acclaimed author of Low Life reinvents the memoir in a cunning, lyrical book that is at once a personal history and a meditation on the construction of identity. Born in Belgium but raised in New Jersey, Luc Sante transformed himself from a pious, timid Belgian boy into a loutish American...

Luc Sante's Low Life is a portrait of America's greatest city, the riotous and anarchic breeding ground of modernity. This is not the familiar saga of mansions, avenues, and robber barons, but the messy, turbulent, often murderous story of the city's slums; the teeming streets--scene of innumerable...