Paris Review Interviews with Women Writers

Women at Work: Interviews from The Paris Review

"Women Writers Interviews" is a special series launched by the editorial department of The Paris Review in 2017, with two volumes published to date. This edition features a revised collection of interviews with sixteen women writers: Marguerite Yourcenar, Isaac Dinesen, Hilary Mantel, Hélène Ferrante, Simone de Beauvoir, Jeanette Winterson, Elizabeth Bishop, Marilynne Robinson, Jane Morris, Dorothy Parker, Joan Didion, Grace Perret, Nathalie Sarraute, Eudora Welty, Ann Beattie, and Lorrie Moore.
As the first special edition of interviews with female writers published by The Paris Review, the sixteen interviews in this book can also be seen as "essays in dialogue." They offer not only a high-level exploration of writing techniques, but also cover subtle details in the lives of female writers that reflect their personalities: When did she establish her ambition to write? What was her literary enlightenment? What specific obstacles did she encounter at different stages of her writing? How did she deal with external denial and self-doubt? Who were her allies or incompatible opponents? What was her relationship with feminist thought? ...

2021-02-01

人民文学出版社

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