Paris Review Writer Interviews 1

The Paris Review: Interviews, Vol. 1

Literary Secrets, Writing Bible: "The Paris Review Interviews with Writers" (4 volumes) takes you into the literary lives of contemporary great writers.
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"Writers at Work" is the most enduring and famous feature of the American literary magazine The Paris Review. Since the interview with E.M. Forster in its inaugural issue in 1953, The Paris Review has consistently published long-form interviews with the greatest contemporary writers in every issue. Initially titled "The Art of Fiction," it gradually expanded to "The Art of Poetry," "The Art of Criticism," and so on, now totaling over three hundred interviews, encompassing almost all important writers in the world literary scene from the latter half of the twentieth century to the present. The writer interviews have become a signature of The Paris Review, while also setting a benchmark for the special genre of "interviews."
An interview often takes months or even years from preparation to actual execution, and it is not conducted to coincide with the publication of a writer's new book, hence it carries no commercial promotional flavor. Writers naturally discuss their writing habits, methods, moments of confusion, literary secrets... The content is fascinating and possesses significant documentary value. Coupled with interesting anecdotes surrounding the interviews, this column itself has become a legend, truly one of "the longest-running cultural dialogues in world history."
Authorized by The Paris Review, we have selected interviews with over sixty writers familiar to Chinese readers from the "Writers at Work" column, to be published in four volumes. "The Paris Review Interviews with Writers 1" includes interviews with the following sixteen writers: Truman Capote, Ernest Hemingway, Henry Miller, Vladimir Nabokov, Jack Kerouac, John Updike, Gabriel García Márquez, Raymond Carver, Milan Kundera, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Günter Grass, Paul Auster, Haruki Murakami, Orhan Pamuk, Stephen King, Umberto Eco.
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The Paris Review is one of the few truly important literary magazines of the twentieth—and now the twenty-first—century.
—Margaret Atwood
I have every issue of The Paris Review, and I really like the interviews in it. If they were made into a book, it would be a great book, and very beneficial to The Paris Review itself.
—Ernest Hemingway
Almost as long as I can remember, I have been deeply drawn to The Paris Review interviews. Collectively, they form the best and most accessible inquiry into the question of "what literature is like." In many ways, asking "what" literature is like is more interesting than asking "why."
—Salman Rushdie
When I was writing my first novel, whenever I got stuck, I would instinctively get up from my desk in that smoky room and reread The Paris Review interviews with Faulkner, Nabokov, Dos Passos, Hemingway, or Updike, trying to regain my faith in writing and find my own way. …Years later, after I myself appeared in The Paris Review, I reread these interviews again to rekindle the hopes and anxieties of my early writing days. Thirty years have passed, and I still read these interviews with the same enthusiasm. I know I haven't been led astray: I feel the joys and torments of literature more strongly than ever.
—Orhan Pamuk
The Paris Review interviews always provide the best perspective into the minds and writing ethics of great writers. You can sit alone on a couch and read them intently, and it's like getting an MFA creative writing course.
—Dave Eggers
These Paris Review interview collections should be handed out at cocktail parties, readings, weddings, carnivals, and all sorts of lively occasions. They are also perfectly suitable for use in classrooms at all levels, from high school all the way up to MFA programs. In fact, I've taught an entire semester's creative writing course using these interviews. Where else could I find the world's greatest writers and their wise, absurd, and angry words, and bring them into the classroom? These interviews are brilliant, exciting, and indispensable.
—Colum McCann

2018-01-01

人民文学出版社

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