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Writing At Risk : Interviews in Paris With Uncommon Writers
author
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Weiss, Jason.
publisher
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University of Iowa Press
isbn10 | asin
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0877453497
print isbn13
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9780877453499
ebook isbn13
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9781587292491
language
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English
subject
Authors--Interviews, Paris (France)--In literature.
publication date
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1991
lcc
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PN452.W47 1991eb
ddc
:
809/.04
subject
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Authors--Interviews, Paris (France)--In literature.
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Writing at Risk
Interviews in Paris with Uncommon Writers
By Jason Weiss
UNIVERSITY OF IOWA PRESS IOWA CITY
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University of Iowa Press, Iowa City 52242
Copyright 1991 by the University of Iowa
All rights reserved
Printed in the United States of America First edition, 1991
Design by Richard Hendel
No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, without permission in writing from the publisher.
Printed on acid-free paper
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Weiss, Jason, 1955 Writing at risk: interviews in Paris with uncommon writers/by Jason Weiss.1st ed. p. cm. Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 0-87745-348-9 (alk. paper).ISBN 0-87745-349-7 (pbk.: alk. paper) 1. Authors20th century Interviews. 2. Paris (France) in literature. I. Title. PN452.W47 1991 91-4787 809'.04dc20 CIP
E. M. Cioran photo by John Schults Julio Cortzar photo by Jacques Robert Brion Gysin photo by Jane Evelyn Atwood Eugne Ionesco photo by Jacques Robert Carlos Fuentes photo by Jacques Sassier Jean-Claude Carrire photo by Elizabeth Wajnberg Milan Kundera photo by Aaron Manheimer Nathalie Sarraute photo by Jacques Sassier Edmond Jabs photo by Elizabeth Wajnberg
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FOR MY PARENTS
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Contents
Acknowledgments
ix
Introduction
xi
E. M. Cioran
1
Julio Cortzar
39
Brion Gysin
57
Eugne Ionesco
85
Carlos Fuentes
108
Jean-Claude Carrire
125
Milan Kundera
137
Nathalie Sarraute
145
Edmond Jabs
167
Bibliography of Works in English
207
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Acknowledgments
Acknowledgment is made to the following publications in which much of this work first appeared: Cineaste, City Lights Review, Conjunctions, Exquisite Corpse, Grand Street, International Herald Tribune, Invisible City, Jazz Magazine (Paris), The Kenyon Review, Los Angeles Times, Luna Park (Paris), New England Review, The Paris Review, Quilt, Reality Studios (London), The Times (London).
I wish to thank all of the writers who agreed to be interviewed.
Also, thanks to David Meltzer, who first introduced me to the work of Jabs, which in turn led to Cioran.
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Introduction
Few paths are as uncertain as a career in literature. More than the other arts, the one which is centered on the written word lays itself open to a dizzying play of nuances which only the skill of the authorand a favorable windrender coherent. As the principal medium for thought and narrative, speech and song, words bear a stricter relationship to meaning than image or gesture or sound and yet must encompass all of these if they are to seem alive. The plasticity of words, the wealth of their ambiguities, pose challenge enough to the conventional writer, but to one who seeks to go beyond, to reach new discoveries, the struggle is unrelenting.
Each of the writers interviewed in this book has changed the course of literary tradition. Probably they did not start out with that goal; or if it was part of their youthful ambition, they could not have imagined the forms it would take. The adventure they had embarked on was to wrestle with the verbal angel and to register occasional victories along the way in the form of insights or a finished product. But no sooner does one work end than another has already begun. In this, public approval placed a distant second for these artists compared to the stages of under-
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standing achieved. It has been their wager with the world to make manifest the dreams and inner challenges that have occupied them.
In essence, they have put their lives at stake. What they knew was constantly confronted, provoked even, by what they did not know. The risk these writers courted was the investment of their entire effort, their very identity, in the chance they might be wrong. They were following their instincts into uncharted territory, where nothing was guaranteed and few previous models could serve as guideposts. Instead of fashioning the language to suit what they needed to find, redefining genres, they might have wasted the opportunity of their talents and gone astray.
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