{"id":145506,"date":"2020-06-09T13:00:10","date_gmt":"2020-06-09T17:00:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=145506"},"modified":"2020-06-10T10:08:26","modified_gmt":"2020-06-10T14:08:26","slug":"redux-the-tempo-primed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2020\/06\/09\/redux-the-tempo-primed\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: The Tempo Primed"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Every week, the editors of\u00a0<\/em>The Paris Review<em>\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\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/eepurl.com\/dkY3AH\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">signing up for the Redux newsletter<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_145528\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/7040\/the-art-of-fiction-no-237-dany-laferriere\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-145528\" class=\"wp-image-145528 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dany.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dany.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dany-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/dany-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-145528\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dany Laferri\u00e8re with his eldest daughter, Melissa, in 1985.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week at <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re reading Black voices from around the world. Read on for Dany Laferri\u00e8re\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/7040\/the-art-of-fiction-no-237-dany-laferriere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Way\u00e9tu Moore\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7170\/gbessa-wayetu-moore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gbessa<\/a>\u201d (the first chapter of her novel <em>She Would Be King<\/em>), and Wole Soyinka\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2533\/your-logic-frightens-me-mandela-wole-soyinka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Your Logic Frightens Me Mandela<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>If you enjoy these free interviews, stories, and poems, why not\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/TPR\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=ENAPRFX&amp;type=S&amp;gift_key=TESTFXG&amp;utm_source=ReduxBlogpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0and read the entire archive? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door. And for as long as we\u2019re flattening the curve,\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>\u00a0will be sending out a new weekly newsletter, The Art of Distance, featuring unlocked archival selections, dispatches from the\u00a0<em>Daily<\/em>, and efforts from our peer organizations. Read the latest edition\u2014which lowers the paywall on six Writers at Work interviews with Black American authors\u2014<a href=\"https:\/\/mailchi.mp\/theparisreview.org\/the-art-of-distance-no-135041\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a>, and then\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/subscribe?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=35491ea532\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">sign up for more<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/7040\/the-art-of-fiction-no-237-dany-laferriere\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dany Laferri\u00e8re, The Art of Fiction No. 237<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 222 (Fall 2017)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p>In 2013, you were elected to the Acad\u00e9mie fran\u00e7aise, the first-ever Haitian or Quebecois writer to join their ranks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">LAFERRI\u00c8RE<\/p>\n<p>Yes, but first they had to sort out whether I was even admissible. You are supposed to be <em>French<\/em>. It turns out this wasn\u2019t a written rule. At the time the rules were written, they couldn\u2019t even imagine including someone not born in France or a French colony or d\u00e9partement, or a naturalized Frenchman. A Haitian in Montreal is none of the above. To be eligible, you also have to live in France\u2014which I did not. So the question became, is it the Acad\u00e9mie <em>fran\u00e7aise<\/em> as in the French <em>language<\/em>? Or as in <em>France<\/em>? The president of the R\u00e9publique decided the question\u2014it\u2019s the Acad\u00e9mie of the French language. This decision permitted my candidacy to proceed. It was what they call \u201c<em>une belle \u00e9lection<\/em>.\u201d I was received with enthusiasm, in the first round of voting. It took Victor Hugo something like four rounds, Voltaire three!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7170\/gbessa-wayetu-moore\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-145530\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gbessa.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gbessa.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gbessa-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/gbessa-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7170\/gbessa-wayetu-moore\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Gbessa<\/a><br \/>\nBy Way\u00e9tu Moore<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 225 (Summer 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lai was hidden in the middle of forests when the Vai people found it. There was evidence of earlier townsmen there, as ends of stoneware and crushed diamonds were found scattered on hilltops in the unexpected company of domestic cats. But when the Vai people arrived from war-ravaged Arabia through the Mandingo inland, they found no inhabitants and decided to occupy the province with their spirits.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2533\/your-logic-frightens-me-mandela-wole-soyinka\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-145532\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/wole.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/wole.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/wole-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/06\/wole-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/2533\/your-logic-frightens-me-mandela-wole-soyinka\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Your Logic Frightens Me Mandela<\/a><br \/>\nBy Wole Soyinka<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 107 (Summer 1988)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Your logic frightens me, Mandela,<br \/>\nYour logic frightens me. Those years<br \/>\nOf dreams, of time accelerated in<br \/>\nVisionary hopes, of savouring the task anew,<br \/>\nThe call, the tempo primed<br \/>\nTo burst in supernovae round a \u201cbrave new world\u201d!<br \/>\nThen stillness. Silence. The world closes round<br \/>\nYour sole reality; the rest is\u2026 dreams?<\/p>\n<p>Your logic frightens me.<br \/>\nHow coldly you disdain legerdemains!<br \/>\n\u201cOpen Sesame\u201d and\u2014two decades\u2019 rust on hinges<br \/>\nPeels at touch of a conjurer\u2019s wand?<br \/>\nWhite magic, ivory-topped black magic wand,<br \/>\nOne moment wand, one moment riot club<br \/>\nElectric cattle prod and club or sjambok<br \/>\nTearing flesh and spilling blood and brain?<\/p>\n<p>This bag of tricks, whose silk streamers<br \/>\nTurn knotted cords to crush dark temples?<br \/>\nA rabbit punch sneaked beneath the rabbit?<br \/>\nDoves metamorphosed in milk-white talons?<br \/>\nNot for you the olive branch that sprouts<br \/>\nGun muzzles, barbed-wire garlands, tangled thorns<br \/>\nTo wreathe the brows of black, unwilling christs \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>And to read more from the\u00a0<\/em>Paris Review<em>\u00a0archives, make sure to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/TPR\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=ENAPRFX&amp;type=S&amp;gift_key=TESTFXG&amp;utm_source=ReduxBlogpost\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe<\/a>! In addition to four print issues per year, you\u2019ll also receive complete digital access to our sixty-seven years\u2019 worth of archives<\/em><em>.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we\u2019ve lowered the paywall on Dany Laferri\u00e8re\u2019s Art of Fiction interview, fiction by Way\u00e9tu Moore, and a poem by Wole Soyinka.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[31006],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-145506","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redux"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Redux: The Tempo Primed by The Paris Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This week, we\u2019ve lowered 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