L'Ecole de Chicago
So after having a lovely lunch at Flippers with Joan I decided to get coffee and then pop into a local used bookstore. After choosing a book off of the Math shelf I decided to take a look at the french boo"ks to see if there was anything interesting. The section was dominated by translations of American pulp Sci-Fi stories, plus a translation of "House of Bernarda Alba" (since I don't speak Spanish I prefer my Spanish novels in English, thank you) a couple copies of Homer's Odyssey, some French novels with the word "Cat" in the title (technically "Chat" but I felt like translations were in order in this post) and the find of a lifetime. Behind one of those stacks of Sci-Fi books a small book entitled "L'école de Chicago" by Alin Coulon which appears to be a history and sociological treatise on the University of Chicago published by the "Presses Universitaires de France". It mentions the gangs of Hyde Park, Research Methods and Racial and Cultural tensions at the UofC. Needless to say, it cost $5 so I bought it. Now let's see if I still know enough French to read it.