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Based on a series of journals written in Paris in the Winter of 1881, this fictional quasi-memoir reconstructs the dreams of nineteenth-century people living in a particular moment of history.
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Paul Poissel was not born in 1848. As a young man, he did not set out to become the greatest Turkish architect in Paris. He did not fail to become the greatest Turkish architect in Paris. He never became a poet, or invented puzzles for an illustrated magazine. In 1904, he did not write this book, The Facts of Winter.Paul La Farge has translated (from the original French) this collection of dreams - funny, haunting, enigmatic - all dreamed by people in and around Paris in 1881. La Farge's afterword investigates the Facts' creation, uncovering startling revelations, unknown truths, and new falsehoods.
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