“I walk around the city as if in a library, the names of the heroes on different time plans of the city draw me a map of a parallel world inhabited by ghosts. When the hunt comes, I will know where to find Edmond Dantes (30 Champs-Élysées), Jean Valjean (7 Rue de l'Armed Man), Benjamin Malossen (78 Rue Folies-Regno). If I wish, I can have lunch at the same table with Eugene de Rastignac at the Rocher de Cancale on rue Montorgueil or go to a salon on rue Montalivet and admire the Beauvais sofa with a pattern of grape leaves with Charles Swann - of course, if the Verdurins have not yet moved to the Quai de Conti."Didier Blond

Taking from an early age the habit of writing out the addresses of heroes from books, Didier Blond eventually created a kind of guide to the illusory Paris. Thanks to this amazing reference book, fiction and reality, pages and streets merge, and the reader can endlessly travel through literary Paris, visiting the heroes of Balzac and Hugo, Dumas and Modiano, along the way learning a lot of interesting things from the history of the city and encountering incredible coincidences.

< p>From a young age, ever since he discovered that one of the refuges of the famous gentleman robber Arsene Lupine was located not far from his home, Didier Blond became addicted to copying out the addresses of the heroes from the novels he read and putting the addresses of the heroes on the map of Paris. This is how this unusual “Address Book of Fictional Literary Characters” was born. It can be read in a row, starting with an elegant introductory essay, or you can choose your favorite characters or, using the attached signs, walk through the districts and streets of Paris as if through the pages of a book.

Didier Blond (b. 1953) - French writer , author of novels, collections of stories, essays, winner of prestigious literary awards.