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An interview with Paul Fournel author of Need for the Bike. 16 July 2019. ‘Nobody evokes the transformative joy of cycling the way Fournel does here … magical’ – Herbie Sykes. “I ride to rest and to tire myself out; I ride to do myself good and to do myself harm”. … one of the many cycling paradoxes explored in this unique and ...
Aug 2, 2019 · August 02, 2019. A short sit-down with Paul Fournel. Few writers are able to translate the physicality of cycling into prose like French write, Paul Fournel. Not just what it feels like to do but why we need to do it. He is an historian of the sport of longstanding, keeping alive the memories of old masters, from Anquetil to Agostinho.
Jul 8, 2017 · Author: Paul Fournel (translated by Nick Caistor) Publisher: Pursuit. Year: 2017 (first published in France in 2012) Pages: 117. Order: Profile Books. What it is: Jacques Anquetil as man, myth...
Vélo is a lovely little book about riding the bike. Writer Paul Fournel has spent a lifetime on two wheels. He lingers lovingly on the minutiae of the sport from the shape of a climber’s legs...
Jul 8, 2017 · Fournel began to add new essays to Rouleur, translated by Graeme Fife, and the two - the fifty-five essays that appeared in Besoin de vélo and Need for the Bike plus the more recent Rouleur ...
Paul Fournel is a writer, publisher, and diplomat. He wrote his master’s thesis on Raymond Queneau and has published a book-length study of the Oulipo, of which he is a member.
Aug 1, 2019 · by Paul Fournel. Vélo is a unique look at the bike. Through a series of short essays, Paul Fournel beautifully evokes the experience and spirit of all aspects of cycling.
