{"id":135958,"date":"2019-04-30T13:00:08","date_gmt":"2019-04-30T17:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=135958"},"modified":"2019-04-29T17:42:29","modified_gmt":"2019-04-29T21:42:29","slug":"redux-april-in-paris","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/04\/30\/redux-april-in-paris\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: April in Paris"},"content":{"rendered":"

Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review\u00a0lift the paywall on a selection of interviews, stories, poems, and more from the magazine\u2019s archive. You can have these unlocked pieces delivered straight to your inbox every Sunday by\u00a0signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n

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Sketch by Ivy Nicholson, 1956.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week, we\u2019re listening to that old jazz standard \u201cApril in Paris<\/a>\u201d and reading Fran\u00e7oise Sagan\u2019s Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, as well as Zygmunt Haupt\u2019s short story \u201cIn Paris and in Arcadia<\/a>\u201d and Charles Baudelaire\u2019s poem \u201cParisian Dream<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Fran\u00e7oise Sagan, The Art of Fiction No. 15<\/a>
\nIssue no. 14 (Autumn 1956)<\/em><\/p>\n

I had read a lot of stories. It seemed to me impossible not to want to write one. Instead of leaving for Chile with a band of gangsters, one stays in Paris and writes a novel. That seems to me the great adventure.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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In Paris and in Arcadia<\/a>
\nBy Zygmunt Haupt
\nIssue no. 4 (Winter 1953)<\/em><\/p>\n

In the inside pocket of my coat, in a compartment of my much-used wallet I treasured a check for 500 francs nicely folded in four. From my looking at it so often to assure myself it was still there, the check had become a little crumpled and yellowish, but it had its full value. This check was a kind of magic passport for me, a safe guarantee of my return. It would then be a diploma, also, for title failure of my life\u2019s dream, for my surrender in the conquering of the world\u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Parisian Dream<\/a>
\nBy Charles Baudelaire
\nIssue no. 82 (Winter 1981)<\/em><\/p>\n

It is a terrible terrain
\nno mortal eye has seen
\nwhose image still seduces me
\nthis morning as it fades \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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