{"id":159318,"date":"2022-05-10T15:56:02","date_gmt":"2022-05-10T19:56:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=159318"},"modified":"2022-05-12T14:07:45","modified_gmt":"2022-05-12T18:07:45","slug":"redux-even-a-fact-is-not-a-fact","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/05\/10\/redux-even-a-fact-is-not-a-fact\/","title":{"rendered":"Redux: Even a Fact Is Not a Fact"},"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_159319\" style=\"width: 950px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=7b44f7e931&amp;e=7d8bbfd316\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159319\" class=\"wp-image-159319 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/redux-rorem.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"940\" height=\"671\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/redux-rorem.jpeg 940w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/redux-rorem-300x214.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/redux-rorem-768x548.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-159319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ned Rorem. Photograph from the <em>Paris Review<\/em> archives.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Other people\u2019s diaries, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2022\/05\/03\/other-peoples-diaries\/?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=e81ede4f15-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-e81ede4f15-56577934&amp;mc_cid=e81ede4f15&amp;mc_eid=7d8bbfd316\">observes<\/a> our web editor, Sophie Haigney, offer \u201cdistinct and potent pleasures, the rare, delightful, occasionally shocking intimacies of reading someone else\u2019s private thoughts.\u201d She\u2019s describing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/letters-essays\/7875\/diary-1988-annie-ernaux?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=e81ede4f15-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-e81ede4f15-56577934&amp;mc_cid=e81ede4f15&amp;mc_eid=7d8bbfd316\">\u201cDiary, 1988,\u201d<\/a> an excerpt from Annie Ernaux\u2019s journals that appears in our <a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=7bf3753610&amp;e=7d8bbfd316\">Spring issue<\/a>, but the same can be said for Ned Rorem\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=96e4e6ff18&amp;e=7d8bbfd316\">Art of the Diary<\/a> interview, Jane Bowles\u2019s short story \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=7fbb8f2295&amp;e=7d8bbfd316\">Emmy Moore\u2019s Journal<\/a>,\u201d pages\u2014colorful in more senses than one\u2014from Duncan Hannah\u2019s high-school <a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=93d1a6f559&amp;e=7d8bbfd316\">diaries<\/a>, and Charles Wright\u2019s cycle of poems, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=fff9d6f80e&amp;e=7d8bbfd316\">Five Journals<\/a>.\u201d And few other forms can be so sharp, so economical in conveying the texture of life lived in times of atrocity, as shown by Liao Yiwu\u2019s account of the Tiananmen Square massacre, \u201c<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=eeea1c779b&amp;e=7d8bbfd316\">Nineteen Days<\/a>.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>For more diaries, follow our new series featuring contributions from writers and artists: last week, Elisa Gonzalez shared\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=402c7d697a&amp;e=7d8bbfd316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D402c7d697a%26e%3D7d8bbfd316&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1652203219550000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2ftE66WRVIFnxInzUw3b9w\">pages<\/a>\u00a0from 2018 and Adam Levin\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=43c014e9a5&amp;e=7d8bbfd316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D43c014e9a5%26e%3D7d8bbfd316&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1652203219550000&amp;usg=AOvVaw385cEnAfctMLqgsXkMYuEi\">looked back on<\/a>\u00a0a period of self-interrogation. And if you enjoy these free interviews, stories, poems, and art portfolios, why not\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=67c02fe2d1&amp;e=7d8bbfd316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D67c02fe2d1%26e%3D7d8bbfd316&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1652203219551000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1Tq8CeeAuhUpCWI6emuVLA\">subscribe<\/a>\u00a0to\u00a0<em>The Paris Review<\/em>? You\u2019ll get four new issues of the quarterly delivered straight to your door.<\/p>\n<p>INTERVIEW<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=1abda4c13c&amp;e=7d8bbfd316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D1abda4c13c%26e%3D7d8bbfd316&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1652203219551000&amp;usg=AOvVaw1U1HDfAC1H-gNitAIA2tK8\">The Art of the Diary No. 1<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Ned Rorem<\/em><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\">INTERVIEWER<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Auden defined the narcissist as the hunchback who gazes at his image in the water and says, On me it looks good. When I asked you about the diarist\u2019s narcissism, I didn\u2019t just mean the recurrence of I, but the self-absorption\u2014whatever happens to the self is deemed of interest to others.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: center;\">ROREM<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Well, yes. Auden was right even when he was wrong. Cocteau said, \u201cJe suis le mensonge qui dit la v\u00e9rit\u00e9.\u201d All art is a lie, insofar as truth is defined by the Supreme Court. After all, Picasso\u2019s goat isn\u2019t a goat. Is the artist a liar, or simply one for whom even a fact is not a fact? There is no truth, not even an overall Truth.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: right;\">From issue no. 150\u00a0(Spring 1999)<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_159321\" style=\"width: 982px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/fiction\/3995\/emmy-moores-journal-jane-bowles?utm_source=The+Paris+Review+Newsletter&amp;utm_campaign=e81ede4f15-EMAIL_CAMPAIGN_2018_08_05_COPY_01&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_term=0_35491ea532-e81ede4f15-56577934&amp;mc_cid=e81ede4f15&amp;mc_eid=7d8bbfd316\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159321\" class=\"wp-image-159321 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/redux-diary.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"972\" height=\"694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/redux-diary.jpeg 972w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/redux-diary-300x214.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/redux-diary-768x548.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-159321\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Duncan Hannah.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>PROSE<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=7628e1a0d8&amp;e=7d8bbfd316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D7628e1a0d8%26e%3D7d8bbfd316&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1652203219551000&amp;usg=AOvVaw38zoz-VuKGASu6Ix9rzFE0\">Emmy Moore\u2019s Journal<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Jane Bowles<\/em><\/p>\n<p>May<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">On certain days I forget why I\u2019m here. Today once again wrote my husband all my reasons for coming. He encouraged me to come each time I was in doubt. He said that the worst danger for me was a state of vagueness, so I wrote telling him why I had come to the Hotel Henry\u2014my eighth letter on this subject\u2014but with each new letter I strengthen my position. I am reproducing the letter here. Let there be no mistake. My journal is intended for publication. I want to publish for glory, but also in order to aid other women.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: right;\">From issue no. 56 (Spring 1973)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_159323\" style=\"width: 1002px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=31b0284bf3&amp;e=7d8bbfd316\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159323\" class=\"wp-image-159323 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/diary2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"992\" height=\"709\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/diary2.jpeg 992w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/diary2-300x214.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/diary2-768x549.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-159323\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Duncan Hannah.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>POETRY<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=14b667e71f&amp;e=7d8bbfd316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D14b667e71f%26e%3D7d8bbfd316&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1652203219551000&amp;usg=AOvVaw10TCfiv9wuNhsZbgVSyF-M\">Five Journals<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Charles Wright<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Inaudible consonant inaudible vowel<br \/>The word continues to fall<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; in splendor around us<br \/>Window half shadow window half moon<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; back yard like a book of snow<br \/>That holds nothing and that nothing holds<br \/>Immaculate text<br \/>&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; not too prescient not too true<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: right;\">From issue no. 104 (Fall 1987)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_159325\" style=\"width: 984px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=022b56a912&amp;e=7d8bbfd316\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159325\" class=\"wp-image-159325 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/diary3.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"974\" height=\"695\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/diary3.jpeg 974w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/diary3-300x214.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/diary3-768x548.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-159325\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of Duncan Hannah.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>PROSE<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=022b56a912&amp;e=7d8bbfd316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D022b56a912%26e%3D7d8bbfd316&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1652203219551000&amp;usg=AOvVaw2qbi9wNA8zCgWD8diWPCA7\">Nineteen Days<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Liao Yiwu<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>June 4, 1989<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A massacre took place in the capital city of the People\u2019s Republic of China. The size of it shocked the world. Nobody knows precisely how many innocent people lost their lives. The government put the number of \u201ccollateral deaths\u201d at two hundred or less. But many Chinese believe that it was more like three thousand innocent students and residents who were slain.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: right;\">From issue no. 189 (Summer 2009)<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_159327\" style=\"width: 721px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=74cd1f256c&amp;e=7d8bbfd316\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-159327\" class=\"wp-image-159327 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/diary4.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"711\" height=\"508\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/diary4.jpeg 711w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/05\/diary4-300x214.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-159327\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Duncan Hannah at Bard College, 1973. Photograph from the <em>Paris Review<\/em> archives.<\/p><\/div>\n<p>ART<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=07f351dbc0&amp;e=7d8bbfd316\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D07f351dbc0%26e%3D7d8bbfd316&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1652203219551000&amp;usg=AOvVaw3foHMBTUbK290lHrfNIKh2\">Diaries, 1970\u201373<\/a><br \/>\n<em>Duncan Hannah<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Nov. 20th. Listening to the new Velvet Underground LP, <em>Loaded<\/em>. \u201cOne fine morning, she turned on that New York station, she don\u2019t believe what she heard at all .\u2009.\u2009. not at all.\u201d Also the Zombies\u2019\u00a0<em>Odyssey and Oracle<\/em>\u00a0is fantastic. Such a rich wealth of music coming out. It\u2019s where we get our messages, our subversive directions. It\u2019s the soundtrack to our lives. The centerpiece to all this action.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: right;\">From issue no. 222 (Fall 2017)<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">If you enjoyed the above, don\u2019t forget to\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u=b6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde&amp;id=65a5d1b219&amp;e=befe0faba8\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\" data-saferedirecturl=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/theparisreview.us17.list-manage.com\/track\/click?u%3Db6c161007733f0d4c084f3fde%26id%3D65a5d1b219%26e%3Dbefe0faba8&amp;source=gmail&amp;ust=1645027625962000&amp;usg=AOvVaw0AKqjI6WBJ0RBS5B5CZhMf\">subscribe<\/a>! In addition to four print issues per year, you\u2019ll also receive complete digital access to our sixty-nine years\u2019 worth of archives.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week, we\u2019ve lowered the paywall on Ned Rorem, Jane Bowles, Charles Wright, Liao Yiwu, and Duncan Hannah.<\/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":[1898,30419,8956,14172,3447,31384],"class_list":["post-159318","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-redux","tag-charles-wright","tag-duncan-hannah","tag-jane-bowles","tag-liao-yiwu","tag-ned-rorem","tag-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: Even a Fact Is Not a Fact by The Paris 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