Deze interviewreeks biedt fascinerende inzichten in de geest van de meest invloedrijke auteurs, dichters en toneelschrijvers ter wereld. Elk deel bevat diepgaande gesprekken die het creatieve proces, de inspiraties en de ideeën van literaire grootheden onthullen. Het is een onschatbare bron voor iedereen met interesse in literatuur en kunst.
This is a second volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazines. The encounters between The Paris Review and the world's leading writers have elicited some of the most revelatory and revealing thoughts from the literary masters of our age. Entertaining and thought-provoking, it is essential reading for anyone who cares about writers and writing.
With an Introduction by Salman Rushdie For more than fifty years, The Paris Review has brought us revelatory and revealing interviews with the literary lights of our age. This critically acclaimed series continues with another eclectic lineup, including Philip Roth, Ezra Pound, Haruki Murakami, Marilynne Robinson, Stephen Sondheim, E. B. White, Maya Angelou, William Styron and more. In each of these remarkable extended conversations, the authors touch every corner of the writing life, sharing their ambitions, obsessions, inspirations, disappointments, and the most idiosyncratic details of their writing habits. The collected interviews of The Paris Reviews are, as Gary Shteyngart put it, "a colossal literary event."
A Picador Paperback Original How do great writers do it? From James M. Cain's hard-nosed observation that "writing a novel is like working on foreign policy. There are problems to be solved. It's not all inspirational," to Joan Didion's account of how she composes a book--"I constantly retype my own sentences. Every day I go back to page one and just retype what I have. It gets me into a rhythm"--The Paris Review has elicited some of the most revelatory and revealing thoughts from the literary masters of our age. For more than half a century, the magazine has spoken with most of our leading novelists, poets, and playwrights, and the interviews themselves have come to be recognized as classic works of literature, an essential and definitive record of the writing life. They have won the coveted George Polk Award and have been a contender for the Pulitzer Prize. Now, Paris Review editor Philip Gourevitch introduces an entirely original selection of sixteen of the most celebrated interviews. Often startling, always engaging, these encounters contain an immense scope of intelligence, personality, experience, and wit from the likes of Elizabeth Bishop, Ernest Hemingway, Truman Capote, Rebecca West, and Billy Wilder. This is an indispensable book for all writers and readers.
Em meados dos anos cinquenta, um grupo de jovens intelectuais americanos criou uma revista chamada The Paris Review. Os seus autores dificilmente terão tido a percepção de que estavam a fazer nascer uma abordagem nova à literatura e à arte da escrita e de que, por outro lado, se constituiria a partir dali o mais extraordinário arquivo do fascínio que uma entrevista literária pode alcançar. Entre a entrevista a E. M. Forster, a primeira deste volume, e a entrevista a Jack Kerouac, a última, decorrem quinze anos. O tempo que corresponde a uma mudança social drástica que a literatura soube espelhar. E que estas peças também revelam por inteiro: do aprumo formal de Forster à conversa com anfetaminas em casa de Kerouac. Sem a Paris Review, teríamos as mesmas obras de Faulkner, Hemingway ou Borges - para citar apenas três dos dez autores que estão neste livro - mas não teríamos a mesma imagem que temos hoje de alguns dos escritores decisivos para a arte literária no século XX.
The art of the interview has never been more lively or engaging than in the pages of The Paris Review. Since this seminal literary magazine was founded in 1953, it has given us invaluable conversations with the greatest writers of the past half century, vivid self-portraits that are themselves works of finely crafted literature. In this second volume, editor Philip Gourevitch selects a rich, varied crop of literary voices, including William Faulkner, Toni Morrison, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Graham Greene, James Baldwin, Stephen King, Philip Larkin, Eudora Welty, Peter Carey, Gabriel García Márquez, and more. "A colossal literary event" as Gary Shteyngart put it, The Paris Review Book of Interviews, Volume II offers an indispensable treasury of wisdom and insight from the literary masters of our age
The first volume of fascinating interviews from one of the world's best loved literary magazines
The third volume of the acclaimed Paris Review Interviews, described by Gary Shteyngart as a 'colossal literary event'
