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THE PARIS REVIEW No. 180
Spring 2007 |
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Harry Mathews on “the idiotic thing that aspiring young writers are usually told: write about yourself. Don't imitate literary models. Of course, imitating literary models is the best thing one can do.” Jorge Semprún on the art of fiction: “when I got back from Buchenwald in 1945, I did want to write. I longed for it, to be honest, but strangely enough I found it impossible.” Ryszard Kapuscinski travels through Africa: “In the afternoon the shadows lengthen, start to overlap, then darken and finally turn to black. . . . People come alive then . . . they greet one another, converse, clearly happy that they have somehow managed to endure the quotidian cataclysm.” Plus a new story by Benjamin Percy, debut fiction by Karl Taro Greenfeld, and the spring poetry folio. |
| TABLE OF CONTENTS |
| INTERVIEW |
| Harry Mathews, The Art of Fiction No. 191 | | Jorge Semprun, The Art of Fiction No. 192 |
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| FICTION |
| Karl Taro Greenfeld, Silver | | Benjamin Percy, Somebody Is Going to Have to Pay for This |
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| DOCUMENT |
| Gustave Flaubert, Two Deaths |
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| MEMOIR |
| Ryszard Kapuscinski, Problem, No Problem |
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| POETRY |
| Eavan Boland, Instructions | | Victoria Chang, How Much | | Adam O. Davis, The Following Should Not Be Questioned | | Regan Good, Two Poems | | Jessica Johnson, Moon Snail | | Mary Kinzie, "The Water-brooks" | | John Matthias, Post-Anecdotal | | Jason Myers, Two Poems | | Sharon Olds, Calvinist Parents | | Jonah Winter, Two Poems |
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| PHOTOGRAPHS |
| Richard Kalvar, Earthlings | | Ryszard Kapuscinski, Roadsides |
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