The Paris Review Anthology

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When George Plimpton arrived in Paris in 1953 to edit the newly founded Paris Review, the express aim of the magazine was to publish the best postwar writing. Numerous magazines had sprung up in Paris, complete with manifestos and "isms" and written by critics. The Paris Review was to be different. It had no "isms." Rather, "[the] eventual course was disarmingly simple," George Plimpton writes in the introduction to this anthology. "[T]he main idea was to devote the magazine largely to creative work and put the critical material...in the back of the book. If any concessions to critical evaluations were to be made, the editors, rather than relying on a third party for an essay or critique, would go to the authors themselves (when possible) to try to get them to talk about their work." The brilliant success of that effort shows in the creativity displayed in these pages. In its long and distinguished life the Paris Review has published over 400 short stories and upwards of 1000 poems,... Tovább

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When George Plimpton arrived in Paris in 1953 to edit the newly founded Paris Review, the express aim of the magazine was to publish the best postwar writing. Numerous magazines had sprung up in Paris, complete with manifestos and "isms" and written by critics. The Paris Review was to be different. It had no "isms." Rather, "[the] eventual course was disarmingly simple," George Plimpton writes in the introduction to this anthology. "[T]he main idea was to devote the magazine largely to creative work and put the critical material...in the back of the book. If any concessions to critical evaluations were to be made, the editors, rather than relying on a third party for an essay or critique, would go to the authors themselves (when possible) to try to get them to talk about their work." The brilliant success of that effort shows in the creativity displayed in these pages. In its long and distinguished life the Paris Review has published over 400 short stories and upwards of 1000 poems, as well as the respected series of interviews, "Writers at Work," which have been collected in eight volumes. This present compilation, the fullest ever and one selected by the fiction and poetry editors of the Paris Review, displays the best and most representative of the magazine's work from its thirty-six years. Always concerned to encourage emerging writers, the Paris Review editors found (continued on back flap)
(continued from front flap) an amazing number of the right ones- among them Samuel Beckett, Italo Calvino, Nadine Gordimer, Jack Kerouac, Philip Roth, James Salter, and among the poets Robert Bly, James Dickey, Thom Gunn, Ted Hughes, W. S. Merwin, and Louis Simpson. All are here, and many, many others, selected by the Paris Review's poetry editors over the years: Donald Hall, X. J. Kennedy, Tom Clark, Michael Benedikt, and Jonathan Galassi. This stunning and durable anthology is truly a literary feast, 187 treasures from the pages of the "biggest little magazine in history." Vissza