The Paris Review Interviews: Vol. 3 - Couverture souple

Gourevitch, Philip

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1847671136 ISBN 13 : 9781847671134

Editeur : Canongate Books, 2008

Synopsis

Since The Paris Review was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of our age, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely-crafted literature. The magazine has spoken with most of the world's leading novelists, poets and playwrights, and the interviews themselves have come to be recognised as classic words of literature in their own right. The series as a whole is indispensable for all writers and readers.

This new volume in the series builds on the success and acclaim of the first two editions.

The interviews:

Ralph Ellison (1955)
Georges Simenon (1955)
Isak Dineson (1956)
Evelyn Waugh (1963)
William Carlos Williams (1964)
Harold Pinter (1966)
John Cheever (1976)
Joyce Carol Oates (1978)
Jean Rhys (1979)
Raymond Carver (1983)
Chinua Achebe (1994)
Ted Hughes (1995)
Jan Morris (1997)
Martin Amis (1998)
Salman Rushdie (2005)
Norman Mailer (2007)

A propos du livre

À propos des auteurs

Philip Gourevitch was named editor of The Paris Review in 2005, succeeding George Plimpton, who was editor from 1953 until his death in 2003.

Margaret Atwood is the author of more than forty books of fiction, poetry and critical essays. In addition to the classic The Handmaid's Tale, her novels include Cat's Eye, shortlisted for the Booker Prize, Alias Grace, which won the Giller Prize in Canada and the Premio Mondello in Italy, The Blind Assassin, winner of the 2000 Booker Prize and Oryx and Crake, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize. She was awarded the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature in 2008. In 2017, The Handmaid's Tale was adapted for an Emmy-nominated TV series and Alias Grace was adapted into a Netflix Original.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

"The Paris Review interviews have always provided the best look into the minds and work ethics of great writers
and when read together constitute the closest thing to an MFA that you can get while sitting alone on your couch."
Dave Eggers

From Salman Rushdie's daring rhetorical question "why shouldn't literature provoke?" to Joyce Carol Oates's thrilling comments about her own prolific output, The Paris Review has elicited revelatory and revealing thoughts from our most accomplished novelists, poets and playwrights. How did Georges Simenon manage to write around six books a year, what was it like for Jan Morris to write as both a man and a woman, what influences moved Ralph Ellison to write Invisible Man? In the pages of The Paris Review, writers give more than simple answers; they offer
uncommon candour, depth and wit in interviews that have become the gold standard of the literary Q&A.

With an introduction by Margaret Atwood, this volume brings together another rich, varied crop of literary voices, including Martin Amis, Norman Mailer, Raymond Carver, John Cheever, Harold Pinter and more.

"This is a bible both for readers and writers, the insider gossip for those who are truly passionate about their prose." Observer

"If you only want to get acquainted with your favourite writer, you could go to a reading or a book-signing. But to really know them, you should read a Paris Review interview." The Times

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Canongate Books
• Date d'édition: 2008
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1847671136
• ISBN 13: 9781847671134
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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