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The Paris Review No. 31, Winter-Spring 1964

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“Experience is a dim lamp which only lights the one who bears it”: An interview with Louis-Ferdinand Céline.

“Style is character”: Norman Mailer on the Art of Fiction.

Jack Kerouac and Henry Miller on Céline.

Poems by Donald Hall and Geoffrey Hill.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Irvin E. Faust, Philco Baby

Interview

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, The Art of Fiction No. 33  Full Text

Norman Mailer, The Art of Fiction No. 32  Full Text

Poetry

Robert Bly, Two Poems

Philip Booth, The Husband as Hero

George Mackay Brown, Two Poems

Henri Coulette, The Blue Eyed Precinct Worker

James Dickey, Winter Trout

Donald Hall, Sleeping

Geoffrey Hill, Three Poems

John Hollander, Making it

Elizabeth Jennings, Two Poems

Donald Justice, Last Days of Prospero

X. J. Kennedy, Three Poems

Robert Layzer, Two Poems

W. S. Merwin, Two Poems

Robert Mezey, You Could Say

Christopher Middleton, For a Future

Warren Miller, The Money Machine

Robert Pack, Don't Sit Under the Apple Tree

Donald Petersen, Leidchen

Adrienne Rich, Thirty-Three

Louis Simpson, Lines Written Near San Francisco

Charles Tomlinson, Idyll

James Wright, Heritage

Feature

Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Journey to the End of Night

Charles Fox, Interview with Louis de Wet, Text for de Wet Portfolio

Jack Kerouac, A Manuscript page on Celine

Henry Miller, A Letter on Celine

James Sherwood, Celine, a batch of new mss

Art

Louis de Wet, A Portfolio of Drawings

Frank Wright, Illustrations