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Peter Geimer | Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung
The ninth country – Exceptional bookstore in Paris (last accessed on November 19.11.2023, 15.33, XNUMX:XNUMX p.m.)
Sophie Semin Handke opened a German-French bookstore last week. Here you will find texts that have almost disappeared from the offering even in Germany. Peter Geimer writes about his visit there.
A sign that it's a real big city is the presence of at least one real bookstore — and by real bookstore I don't mean those bookstores or chains that sell literally everything that can be printed while making profits from sales of kitsch and trinkets.
In addition to a number of good bookstores, there is now also one in Paris that is dedicated to the German language, a sure sign that Paris is a cosmopolitan city.
In the 1970s and 1980s - when I didn't really appreciate good bookstores - there was also a very good one in Stuttgart. You could get lost in the rows of bookshelves with a very old gentleman presiding over the books, some of which were dusty; Even back then you couldn't find any Spiegel bestsellers there.
When I think back to it, I dream of a bookstore like this in Heilbronn again. However, bookstores can probably only survive in cities with around a million inhabitants or because they are subsidized in educational strongholds.
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