{"id":151475,"date":"2021-03-16T13:00:02","date_gmt":"2021-03-16T17:00:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=151475"},"modified":"2021-03-16T13:08:27","modified_gmt":"2021-03-16T17:08:27","slug":"redux-montaigne-was-right","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2021\/03\/16\/redux-montaigne-was-right\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Montaigne Was Right"},"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_151331\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\">\n<div id=\"attachment_151478\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6370\/art-of-fiction-no-228-elena-ferrante\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151478\" class=\"wp-image-151478 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ferrante-750.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"771\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ferrante-750.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ferrante-750-300x231.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/ferrante-750-768x592.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-151478\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Notes from Elena Ferrante\u2019s final revisions to <em>The Story of the Lost Child<\/em>.<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>This week at <em>The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re thinking about friendship, with its many complexities and joys. Read on for Elena Ferrante\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6370\/art-of-fiction-no-228-elena-ferrante\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Ay\u015feg\u00fcl Sava\u015f\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7588\/layover-aysegul-savas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Layover<\/a>,\u201d and Jana Prikryl\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7187\/friend-jana-prikryl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Friend<\/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>? You\u2019ll also get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/6370\/art-of-fiction-no-228-elena-ferrante\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Elena Ferrante, The Art of Fiction No. 228<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 212 (Spring 2015)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Neapolitan Novels didn\u2019t have to make their way like the other stories in the <em>frantumaglia<\/em>. From the start I had the sensation, completely new for me, that everything was already in place. Maybe that was the result of the connection with <em>The Lost Daughter<\/em>. There, for example, the figure of Nina, the young mother who fascinates Leda, was already central.<\/p>\n<p>But it seems pointless to make a list of the more or less conscious connections that I see between my books. The theme of female friendship certainly has something to do with a childhood friend of mine, whom I wrote about some time ago in the <em>Corriere della Sera<\/em>, a few years after her death. That\u2019s the first written trace of the friendship between Lila and Elena. And then I have a small private gallery\u2014stories, luckily, unpublished\u2014of uncontrollable girls and women, repressed by their men, by their environment, bold and yet weary, always a step away from disappearing into their mental <em>frantumaglia<\/em>. They converge in the figure of Amalia, the mother in <em>Troubling Love<\/em>\u2014who shares many features with Lila, if I think about it, \u00adincluding a lack of boundaries.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_151479\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7588\/layover-aysegul-savas\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151479\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151479\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/savas.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/savas.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/savas-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/savas-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-151479\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Petrona Viera (1895\u20131960), <em>Friendship<\/em>, date unknown, oil on fabric, 23 5\/8 x 23 5\/8&#8243;. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/7588\/layover-aysegul-savas\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Layover<\/a><br \/>\nBy Ay\u015feg\u00fcl Sava\u015f<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 234 (Fall 2020)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Lara was supposed to have breakfast with Selin, a friend from middle school who had a long layover in Paris. It was eight thirty, and Lara was frustrated not to have the morning to herself before teaching in the afternoon. She loved the early, luxurious hours when she was free to do anything she wanted, which often meant making coffee and going back to bed to read.<\/p>\n<p>She hadn\u2019t seen Selin in more than fifteen years, though they\u2019d kept in touch a little over Facebook. Selin sometimes wrote out of the blue, having remembered an episode from their school years, or to ask how Lara was doing. Lara had moved to Boston for university, then to New York, before coming to France. Selin would write that she dreamed of visiting Lara in these places.<\/p>\n<p>Lara didn\u2019t see Selin when she went back to Istanbul. Her trips were short, barely enough time to see her parents and closest friends. She had nonetheless kept track of the general shape of Selin\u2019s life: she still lived in Istanbul; she had a boyfriend who resembled her, with a thick mop of hair and a cartoonish smile; she posted photographs of her handicrafts, which received enthusiastic comments from other crafters.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_151480\" style=\"width: 1010px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7187\/friend-jana-prikryl\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-151480\" class=\"size-full wp-image-151480\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/prikryl.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/prikryl.jpeg 1000w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/prikryl-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/03\/prikryl-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-151480\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Fragment of a statue discovered in Amarna, Egypt, in a group of statues representing Akhenaten and Nefertiti. Photo: Titlutin. CC BY-SA 4.0, (https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by-sa\/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/7187\/friend-jana-prikryl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Friend<\/a><br \/>\nBy Jana Prikryl<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 225 (Summer 2018)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Montaigne was right, without the body\u2019s meddling love<br \/>\nis more thrilling.<br \/>\nYet from the start in elementary what she did<br \/>\nwith it was far<br \/>\nfrom irrelevant, her jeans, mascara, rings all<br \/>\narticulate.<\/p>\n<p>And she was always so pretty. Claire Birchall of<br \/>\nthe yellow hair,<br \/>\nthe twins at my birthday party came out and told me<br \/>\nI was unfair<br \/>\nfor playing with no one but her. I said I was sorry.<br \/>\nI didn\u2019t care \u2026<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed the above, don\u2019t forget to <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-eight years\u2019 worth of archives.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we\u2019ve lowered the paywall on Elena Ferrante\u2019s Art of Fiction interview, a short story by Ay\u015feg\u00fcl Sava\u015f, and a poem by Jana Prikryl.<\/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-151475","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: Montaigne Was Right by The Paris Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"This week, we\u2019ve 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