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The Paris Review No. 82, Winter 1981

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“If you say that there are elephants flying in the sky, people are not going to believe you. But if you say that there are four hundred and twenty-five elephants in the sky, people will probably believe you”: An interview with Gabriel García Márquez.

Carlos Fuentes on diplomacy, Mexico from a distance, and the Art of Fiction.

Stories by Julio Cort·zar, Jamaica Kincaid, and Gordon Lish.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Julio Cortazar, Feuilletons, from A Certain Lucas

James Fetler, Watchmann's Cubes

Jamaica Kincaid, What Have I Been Doing Lately

Gordon Lish, How to Write a Poem

R. D. Pohl, Was That the Moon?

Ray Russell, A Note on the Type

Joy Williams, Making Friends

Interview

Carlos Fuentes, The Art of Fiction No. 68  Full Text

Gabriel Garcia Marquez, The Art of Fiction No. 69  Full Text

Poetry

Charles Baudelaire, Nineteen Poems (Richard Howard, trans.)

Rainer Maria Rilke, Ten Poems (Stephen Mitchell, trans.)

Art

Cindy Sherman, Untitled Film Stills