Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews
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"A superb collection...Page after page, Gallant dazzles. Her voice and sensibility are penetrating, canny, graceful, and incisive."--Washington Post
Best of the Year from Our Pages--The New Yorker Enthralling essays on the expatriate experience in Paris and shrewd literary criticism by one of the twentieth century's finest writers. Mavis Gallant is revered as one of the great short story writers of her generation, but she was also an astute observer and formidable reporter. This selection of Gallant's essays and reviews written between 1968 and 1985 begins with her impressions of the Parisian student uprising in May 1968. Originally published in The New Yorker, "The Events in May" inspired Wes Anderson's film The French Dispatch and Gallant herself served as inspiration for the journalist portrayed by Frances McDormand. Paris Notebooks presents a whole range of subjects portraying French society, ranging from architecture and literature to the gripping story of Gabrielle Russier, a young French schoolteacher driven to imprisonment, madness, and suicide as the result of an affair with one of her students. Also included are Gallant's astute reviews of books by major figures such as Vladimir Nabokov, Simone de Beauvoir, Colette, and G nter Grass. No matter what form she's working in, Mavis Gallant's flawless prose is always full of wit and acuity. This Nonpareil edition includes a new introduction by acclaimed literary biographer Hermione Lee.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1567927890
ISBN13:9781567927894
Release Date:September 2023
Publisher:Godine Nonpareil
Length:392 Pages
Weight:2.45 lbs.
Dimensions:1.3" x 5.2" x 7.4"
Customer Reviews
1 rating
For Time magazine in the 50's and 60's yes... for reading as stories... NO
Published by RobbyG , 3 days ago
Dissapointed... skip this book, heard great things about the author but this book is maaaybe for ( i.e. Paris protest movement in the 50's and 60's ) research only. SKIP IT
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