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"Paris Review: Interviews with Female Writers" Author: Editorial Department of Paris Review, USA Douban 2021 Foreign Literature (Non-fiction) NO.2
"Paris Review: Interviews with Female Writers" Author: Editorial Department of Paris Review, USA Douban 2021 Foreign Literature (Non-fiction) NO.2
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Introduction · · · · · ·
"Interviews with Women Writers" is a special issue launched by the editorial department of "Paris Review" since 2017, and two issues have been published so far. The "Paris Review Interviews with Women Writers" launched this time has some adjustments in the content, including interviews with 16 female writers: Marguerite Yourcenar, Isaac Dinesen, Hilary Mantel, Elena Ferrante, Simone de Beauvoir, Jeanette Winterson, Elizabeth Bishop, Marilyn Robinson, Jane Morris, Dorothy Parker, Joan Didion, Grace Perret, Natalie Sarraute, Eudora Welty, Ann Beatty, and Lorrie Moore.
As the first special issue of interviews with female writers in the history of The Paris Review, the sixteen interviews in this book can also be seen as "prose in dialogue", which is not only a high-level discussion of writing techniques, but also covers those 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 writing? How did she deal with external denial and self-doubt? Who are her fellow travelers or incompatible opponents? What is her relationship with feminist thought? ...
About the Author · · · · · ·
"Writer Interviews" is the most enduring and famous feature column of the American literary magazine "Paris Review". Since the interview with EM Forster in the first issue in 1953, "Paris Review" has published long interviews with the greatest contemporary writers in every issue. Initially titled "The Art of Fiction", it gradually expanded to "The Art of Poetry" and "The Art of Criticism". So far, there have been more than 400 interviews, covering almost all the important writers in the world literary world from the second half of the 20th century to the present. Writer interviews have become the signature of "Paris Review" and have set a model for the special genre of "interview".
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