{"id":44731,"date":"2013-01-10T17:22:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-10T22:22:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=44731"},"modified":"2019-01-03T18:08:21","modified_gmt":"2019-01-03T23:08:21","slug":"in-memoriam-evan-s-connell","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2013\/01\/10\/in-memoriam-evan-s-connell\/","title":{"rendered":"In Memoriam: Evan S. Connell, 1924&ndash;2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>We are sad to learn that Evan Connell has died. An early contributor to <em> The Paris Review<\/em>, Connell was and is a quiet hero of contemporary literature. His novels <em>Mrs. Bridge<\/em> and <em>Mr. Bridge<\/em> have been cited as a crucial influence by writers as different as Lydia Davis, Jonathan Franzen, and Zadie Smith. In his history books\u2014<em>Son of the Morning Star <\/em>(about General Custer) and <em>Deus Lo Volt! <\/em>(about the Crusades)\u2014his poems, and his essays, he sang the glories of lost civilizations and unearthed the ruins at our feet. Connell delighted in tales of folly, of doomed experiments, but his own experiments bore fruits, plural, for no two are alike. We regret that Connell was unable to finish his Art of Fiction interview for the magazine; stay tuned in the next few days for selections from his work as it appeared in <em>The Paris Review<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are sad to learn that Evan Connell has died. An early contributor to The Paris Review, Connell was and is a quiet hero of contemporary literature. His novels Mrs. Bridge and Mr. Bridge have been cited as a crucial influence by writers as different as Lydia Davis, Jonathan Franzen, and Zadie Smith. 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