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The Paris Review No. 2, Summer 1953

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“Every novel worthy of the name is like another planet, whether large or small, which has its own laws just as it has its own flora and fauna”: François Mauriac on the Art of Fiction.

Espinouze illustrates six Faulkner stories.

Poems by Richard Eberhart and Richard Wilbur.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Bernard Frank, The Low Countries

Blair Fuller, Markle and the Mouse

Pati Hill, In the House Where They Were Born

James Tommaney, The Mother

Interview

François Mauriac, The Art of Fiction No. 2  Full Text

Poetry

Robert Bly, Choral Stanza

Richard Eberhart, Creators

Geoffrey Hill, Genesis

Elisabeth Jennings, Fishermen

Adrienne Rich, The Snow Queen

Richard Wilbur, Statues

Feature

Henri De La Grange, Music

Jerome Mellquist, A Blurred Retrospective

Eugene Walter, Marceau and Runacher, The Ballet

Simone Weil, A War of Religion?

Art

Bernard Buffet, Eight Drawings

Denise de Bravura, Illustrations

William Pène du Bois, Illustrations

Espinouze, Six Drawings for Faulkner's "These Thirteen"

Betty Fenn, Illustrations

HelËne Neveur, Contents Page

Fernando Palicio, Illustrations