Paris by Hope Mirrlees read by Charlotte Rampling and Lambert Wilson

'An immersive, polyphonic adventure.' Deborah Levy Celebrating 100 years since first publication of 'modernism's lost masterpiece' (Julia Briggs). In just twenty-two pages, Hope Mirrlees combines sensuous psychogeography with modernist avant garde poetics to create a dazzling single-day journey through interwar Paris in the eyes of a jaded flâneuse. Sights, smells, music, gem-encrusted tortoises, shrouded monuments – it's a truly glorious and immersive evocation of Paris in the springtime. The cover of our edition is inspired by Sonia Delaunay's modernist designs, while she was living in Paris in the 1920s (with thanks to Eleanor Crow). The text inside reproduces, in Caslon Old Face type, the layout of the Hogarth Press edition (with thanks to Kate Ward). Deborah Levy summons the spirit of this 'fiercely independent, young and spirited, flawed and brilliant female writer' in her introductory foreword, Julia Briggs's line-by-line commentary unveils the verse's intricate allusions, while Mirrlees's biographer Sandeep Parmar summarises the social and biographical context in her afterword. Hope Mirrlees (1887–1978) was a British translator, poet and novelist. She published three novels in her lifetime, Madeleine: One of Love’s Jansenists (1919), The Counterplot (1924) and the fantasy novel Lud-in-the-Mist (1926); three slim volumes of poetry, which culminated in Moods and Tensions (1976); and A Fly in Amber (1962), a biography of the British antiquarian Sir Robert Bruce Cotton. With thanks to Charlotte Rampling, Lambert Wilson and Director James Lever, © Hope Mirrlees estate