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Catherine Ford

Catherine Ford reviews 'The Layers of the City' by Antoni Jach

July 1999, no. 212 01 July 1999
An unnamed visitor and note taker wanders present day Paris in Antoni Jach’s new novel, researching something about the city’s ‘many layers’. This amorphous and arduous quest brings him to a certain library where, while he is waiting for a book on aboveground Paris to be retrieved, a spirited American woman tries to draw him out on his work and why he’s in Paris. He airily responds that ... (read more)