{"id":150495,"date":"2021-01-26T13:00:27","date_gmt":"2021-01-26T18:00:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=150495"},"modified":"2021-01-25T16:54:51","modified_gmt":"2021-01-25T21:54:51","slug":"redux-some-timeworn-worm-eaten-piece-of-paper","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2021\/01\/26\/redux-some-timeworn-worm-eaten-piece-of-paper\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Some Timeworn, Worm-Eaten Piece of Paper"},"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_150313\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_150410\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_150498\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/7177\/the-art-of-fiction-no-240-laszlo-krasznahorkai\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150498\" class=\"wp-image-150498 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/laszlo.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/laszlo.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/laszlo-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/laszlo-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-150498\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai. Photo: Nina Subin. Courtesy of New Directions.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This week at <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re celebrating our long and fruitful shared history with New Directions with a special bundle: until the end of January, <a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/tpr\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=PRNEWDR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe<\/a> and receive a year\u2019s worth of issues along with three novels by L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai, Fernanda Melchor, and Enrique Vila-Matas. Read on for L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/7177\/the-art-of-fiction-no-240-laszlo-krasznahorkai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Fernanda Melchor\u2019s \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7477\/they-called-her-the-witch-fernanda-melchor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">They Called Her the Witch<\/a>\u201d (an excerpt from her novel <em>Hurricane Season<\/em>), and Enrique Vila-Matas\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/7600\/the-art-of-fiction-no-247-enrique-vila-matas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art of Fiction interview<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/7177\/the-art-of-fiction-no-240-laszlo-krasznahorkai\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">L\u00e1szl\u00f3 Krasznahorkai, The Art of Fiction No. 240<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 225 (Summer 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The power of the word is, for me, the only way to get closer to this hidden reality. Everyone is a fictional person and, at the same time, a real person. I belong to the fictive world and to the real world\u2014I\u2019m there in both empires. You too. And everyone in this restaurant. And also this object and everything we can perceive and also things we can\u2019t perceive, because we know that with our five senses, some part of reality is imperceptible. I\u2019m not being esoteric. Reality is so important to me that I always want to be aware of every possibility.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_150500\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7477\/they-called-her-the-witch-fernanda-melchor\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150500\" class=\"size-full wp-image-150500\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/melchor2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/melchor2.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/melchor2-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/melchor2-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-150500\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fernanda Melchor. Photo courtesy of New Directions.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7477\/they-called-her-the-witch-fernanda-melchor\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">They Called Her the Witch<\/a><br \/>\nBy Fernanda Melchor<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 231 (Winter 2019)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>They called her the Witch, the same as her mother; the Girl Witch when she first started trading in curses and cures, and then, when she wound up alone, the year of the landslide, simply the Witch. If she\u2019d had another name, scrawled on some timeworn, worm-eaten piece of paper maybe, buried at the back of one of those wardrobes that the older crone crammed full of plastic bags and filthy rags, locks of hair, bones, rotten leftovers, if at some point she\u2019d been given a first name and last name like everyone else in town, well, no one had ever known it, not even the women who visited the house each Friday had ever heard her called anything else.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_150501\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/7600\/the-art-of-fiction-no-247-enrique-vila-matas\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-150501\" class=\"size-full wp-image-150501\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/evm.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/evm.png 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/evm-300x200.png 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/evm-768x512.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-150501\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Enrique Vila-Matas. Photo: \u00a9 Olivier Roller.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/interviews\/7600\/the-art-of-fiction-no-247-enrique-vila-matas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Enrique Vila-Matas, The Art of Fiction No. 247<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 234 (Fall 2020)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>That quality comes from some writers\u2019 facility for what we might call perception, the art of perceiving what\u2019s going to happen. It\u2019s a skill, an art, that we see very acutely in Kafka, for example .\u2009.\u2009. Literature is a mirror with the capacity, like some clocks, to run ahead of time. But we mustn\u2019t mistake perception for prophecy itself.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed the above, make sure to <a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/ecom\/tpr\/app\/live\/subscriptions?org=TPR&amp;publ=PR&amp;key_code=PRNEWDR\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">subscribe<\/a> to this special bundle! 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