Inside a pearl

Edmund White was forty-three when he moved to Paris in 1983. He spoke no French and knew just two people in the entire city, but soon discovered the anxieties and pleasure of mastering anew culture. He fell passionately in love with Paris, its beauty in the half-light and its serenity compare with New-York.

Intoxicated and stimulated by its culture, White made the acquaintance of everyone from Yves saint Laurent, Catherine Deneuve and Michel Foucault... >Voir plus