The Paris Notebooks

In 2007 Quentin S. Crisp visited Paris and kept a diary of his stay there and his return to Britain. An experiment in literary improvisation the Notebooks are also a tribute to mood moment image and allusion. Making a virtue of pareidolia the author sifts through the subjective impressions of cumulative duration in an attempt to distil beauty and truth from the everyday and to reclaim first-person experience from the ravages of 21st century media ­saturation.