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The Paris Review No. 91, Spring 1984

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James Baldwin on the benefits of expatriatism, essays v. fiction, and a revelation found in a New York puddle.

“None of us wanted to write. Therefore, when you read a book on the Holocaust, written by a survivor, you always feel this ambivalence. On one hand, he feels he must. On the other hand, he feels . . . if only I didn’t have to”: Elie Wiesel on the Art of Fiction.

Stories by Susan Minot and Paul Morand. Poems by Michael Benedikt and Andrew Motion.

Table of Contents

Fiction

Susan Minot, Lust

Paul Morand, Borealis

Ellis Weiner, Errata

Rudy Wilson, Impressions

Interview

James Baldwin, The Art of Fiction No. 78  Full Text

Elie Wiesel, The Art of Fiction No. 79  Full Text

Poetry

Michael Benedikt, Right in the Middle of Everything

Lavina Blossom, After the Harlequin

Hayden Carruth, "The World as Will and Representation"

Amy Clampitt, Grasmere

Alfred Corn, from Notes from a Child of Paradise

Tom Disch, Orientating Mr. Blank

Andrew Motion, A Lyrical Ballad

Yannis Ritsos, Three Poems

Molly Russakoff, Lament of the Conductor

Jordan Smith, Lucky Seven

Art

David Bowes, Six American Days and One Night

Roy Lichtenstein, The Reclining Nude

Tom Otterness, Notebook Drawings