{"id":155261,"date":"2021-10-12T12:05:37","date_gmt":"2021-10-12T16:05:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=155261"},"modified":"2021-10-12T13:13:12","modified_gmt":"2021-10-12T17:13:12","slug":"redux-the-storm-before-the-calm","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2021\/10\/12\/redux-the-storm-before-the-calm\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: The Storm before the Calm"},"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_155264\" style=\"width: 649px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/5816\/the-art-of-fiction-no-195-kenzaburo-oe\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155264\" class=\"wp-image-155264 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/089ed6fc-552a-d94b-63bc-1f4ae4f8de19.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"639\" height=\"426\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/089ed6fc-552a-d94b-63bc-1f4ae4f8de19.png 639w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/089ed6fc-552a-d94b-63bc-1f4ae4f8de19-300x200.png 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-155264\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">KENZABURO OE IN 2002.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>This week at\u00a0<em data-stringify-type=\"italic\">The Paris Review<\/em>, we\u2019re highlighting work from some of the more than thirty Nobel laureates in our archive, in honor of the Nobel Prize in Literature announcement last Thursday.\u00a0Read on for Kenzaburo Oe\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/5816\/the-art-of-fiction-no-195-kenzaburo-oe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Art of Fiction interview<\/a>, Alice Munro\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/1797\/spaceships-have-landed-alice-munro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spaceships Have Landed<\/a>,\u201d an excerpt from Naguib Mahfouz\u2019s novel\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/2066\/the-land-of-mashriq-naguib-mahfouz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>The Journey of Ibn Fattouma<\/em><\/a>, and Wislawa Szymborska\u2019s poem \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/1243\/negative-wislawa-szymborska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Negative<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><em>Interview<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.org\/interviews\/5816\/the-art-of-fiction-no-195-kenzaburo-oe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Kenzaburo Oe, The Art of Fiction no. 195<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 183 (Winter 2007)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The Nobel Prize is almost meaningless to one\u2019s literary work, but it raises one\u2019s profile, one\u2019s status as a social figure. One earns a kind of currency that one can use in a much wider realm. But for the author, nothing changes. My opinion of myself didn\u2019t change. There are only a few writers who have gone on to produce good work after winning the Nobel Prize. Thomas Mann is one. Faulkner also.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\"><!--more--><\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_155265\" style=\"width: 968px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/1797\/spaceships-have-landed-alice-munro\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155265\" class=\"wp-image-155265 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/murno.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"958\" height=\"639\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/murno.jpg 958w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/murno-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/murno-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-155265\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">ALICE MUNRO PHOTOGRAPHED BY MARION ETTLINGER.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Fiction<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/1797\/spaceships-have-landed-alice-munro\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Spaceships Have Landed<\/a><br \/>\nBy Alice Munro<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 131 (Summer 1994)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">One whole summer Eunie and Rhea played together. They never thought of their activity as play, but playing was what they called it, to satisfy other people. It was the most serious part of their lives. What they did the rest of the time seemed frivolous, forgettable. When they cut from Eunie&#8217;s yard down to the riverbank they became different people. Each of them was called Tom.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_155266\" style=\"width: 965px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/2066\/the-land-of-mashriq-naguib-mahfouz\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155266\" class=\"wp-image-155266 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/a9d2b701-a02f-f5cd-094e-4f6323386de6.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"955\" height=\"636\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/a9d2b701-a02f-f5cd-094e-4f6323386de6.jpg 955w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/a9d2b701-a02f-f5cd-094e-4f6323386de6-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/a9d2b701-a02f-f5cd-094e-4f6323386de6-768x511.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-155266\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">NAGUIB MAHFOUZ IN 1992.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Fiction<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/2066\/the-land-of-mashriq-naguib-mahfouz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">The Land of Mashriq<\/a><br \/>\nBy Naguib Mahfouz, translated by Denys Johnson-Davies<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 123\u00a0(Summer 1992)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Away from home, I am remolded in a new form; in the depths of me there come into existence bold, impetuous longings to satisfy desires, to pursue adventures. I relinquish one civilization and give myself over to a new one. I yearn for life far away from observers: observers who, while manifesting themselves outwardly, also throb within oneself.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<div id=\"attachment_155267\" style=\"width: 370px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/1243\/negative-wislawa-szymborska\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-155267\" class=\"wp-image-155267 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/02682d79-6369-f996-cfe3-fb78d718f879.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"360\" height=\"240\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/02682d79-6369-f996-cfe3-fb78d718f879.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/02682d79-6369-f996-cfe3-fb78d718f879-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-155267\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">WISLAWA SZYMBORSKA PHOTOGRAPHED BY MARUISZ KUBIK IN 2009.<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em>Poetry<\/em><br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/poetry\/1243\/negative-wislawa-szymborska\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Negative<\/a><br \/>\nBy Wislawa Szymborska, translated by Joanna Trzeciak<br \/>\n<em>Issue no. 144 (Fall 1997)<\/em><\/p>\n<blockquote><p>. . . On your dark face, light shadows.<br \/>\nYou have sat down at a small table<br \/>\nAnd laid your grayed hands on it.<\/p>\n<p>You give the impression of a ghost<br \/>\nWho attempts to summon the living.<\/p>\n<p>(Because I&#8217;m still counted among them,<br \/>\nI should appear and knock:<br \/>\nGood night, that is, good morning,<br \/>\nFarewell, that is, hello.<br \/>\nNot being stingy with questions to any answer<br \/>\nIf they concern life,<br \/>\nThat is, the storm before the calm.)<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><em>If you enjoyed the above, don\u2019t forget to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/ssl.drgnetwork.com\/flex\/TPR\/MAIN\/\" 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>We\u2019ve lowered the paywall on Kenzaburo Oe\u2019s Art of Fiction interview, fiction by Alice Munro and Naguib Mahfouz, and more.<\/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-155261","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 Storm before the Calm by The Paris Review<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"October 12, 2021 \u2013 We\u2019ve lowered the paywall 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