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The Paris Review No. 6, Summer 1954

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“In fact it was one of the greatest successes in all modern Italian literature. . . There has never been anything like it”: Alberto Moravia, suffering from a horrible headache, explains his work.

A bohemian paradise in 1920s Paris: Nathan Asch recalls the Café du Dome.

Italo Calvino’s “Last Comes the Raven.”

Table of Contents

Fiction

Italo Calvino, Last Comes the Raven

Claude-Antoine Ciccione, Assunta Speaks

Kay Cicellis, Mother Nature

Christopher Wanklyn, Mistral and Mermaids

Interview

Alberto Moravia, The Art of Fiction No. 6  Full Text

Poetry

Philip Booth, Elegy For a Diver

James Broughton, Two Poems

Barney Childs, Ars Poetica

Cecil Hemley, Witnesses

David Lougee, If By This Wanton Surge

Helen Neville, The Penalty

Feature

Nathan Asch, The Nineteen-Twenties: An Interior

Thomas Quinn Curtiss, The Paris Theatre

Kenneth Sawyer, The Plastic Year

Eugene Walter, Music and Dance

Art

B. Whistler Dabney, Illustrations

Jean Hannon, Illustrations

John Koenig, Illustrations

MÈlonie Rosewater, Illustrations

Zao-Wou-Ki, Portfolio