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The Paris Review No. 111, Summer 1989

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“You can’t legislate stupidity and ignorance out of existence, or deny they aren’t evolutionary disadvantages”: An interview with John Fowles.

The Art of Fiction: Elizabeth Spencer on cannibalism, Florentine piazzas, and French Canadians.

Translations of Proust and Rilke. Stories by Peter Cameron, Allan Gurganus, and Niccolò Tucci. Poems by Kim Addonizio and Louise Erdrich.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Odillo Antoni, A Piece of Pommerac

Peter Cameron, The Middle of Everything

Allan Gurganus, Lord? Remember Thy Beauty-Parlor Operators, Lord

Niccolò Tucci, The French Revolution

Interview

John Fowles, The Art of Fiction No. 109  Full Text

Athol Fugard, The Art of Theater No. 8  Full Text

Elizabeth Spencer, The Art of Fiction No. 110  Full Text

Poetry

Kim Addonizio, Pantoum: At Mount Hebron

Jack Barrack, Two Poems

Christopher Benfey, Two Poems

Robert Bensen, Blue Room

Stephen Dobyns, Five Poems

Elaine Equi, Three Poems

Louise Erdrich, Two Poems

J. D. McClatchy, Two Poems

Donald Revell, The Season to Scale

Laurie Sheck, Rush Hour

Charlie Smith, Two Poems

Alison Stone, Ink Threads

Marjorie Welish, Two Poems

Feature

Arlen Hansen, A Tour of Expatriate Paris

Richard Howard, from a new translation of Marcel Proust's In Search of Lost Time

Stephen Mitchell, from a new translation of the work of Rainer Maria Rilke

Art

Ralston Crawford, Wharf Objects

Stuart Davis, Studies