{"id":140866,"date":"2019-11-12T13:00:13","date_gmt":"2019-11-12T18:00:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=140866"},"modified":"2019-11-12T13:12:44","modified_gmt":"2019-11-12T18:12:44","slug":"redux-a-cold-wet-november-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2019\/11\/12\/redux-a-cold-wet-november-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: A Cold, Wet November Morning"},"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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Alberto Moravia, 1954.<\/p><\/div>\n

This week at The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re acknowledging that November has finally arrived. Read on for Alberto Moravia\u2019s Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Amparo D\u00e1vila\u2019s short story \u201cMoses and Gaspar<\/a>,\u201d and Paul Jenkins\u2019s poem \u201cNovember<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Alberto Moravia, The Art of Fiction No. 6<\/a>
\nIssue no. 6 (Summer 1954)<\/em><\/p>\n

\n

INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n

May we start at the beginning?<\/p>\n

ALBERTO MORAVIA<\/p>\n

At the beginning?<\/p>\n

INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n

You were born \u2026<\/p>\n

MORAVIA<\/p>\n

Oh. I was born here. I was born in Rome on the twenty-eighth of November, 1907.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Moses and Gaspar<\/a>
\nBy Amparo D\u00e1vila
\nIssue no. 219 (Winter 2016)<\/em><\/p>\n

The train arrived at about six o\u2019clock on a cold, wet November morning. The fog was so thick it was almost impossible to see. I was wearing my coat collar up and my hat shoved down around my ears, but still the fog penetrated all the way to my bones. The apartment where Leonidas lived was in a neighborhood far from the center of town, on the sixth floor of a modest building. Everything\u2014the staircase, the hallways, the rooms\u2014was invaded by the fog.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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November<\/a>
\nBy Paul Jenkins
\nIssue no. 73 (Spring\u2013Summer 1978)<\/em><\/p>\n

It\u2019s true
\nI wanted silence
\nlonged for it but
\nnot this much \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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