Research Catalog

Title

Literary miniatures / Florence Noiville ; translated by Teresa Lavender Fagan.

Author

Noiville, Florence

Publication

London ; New York : Seagull Books, 2013.

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Details

Additional Authors

Fagan, Teresa Lavender

Description

xvi, 183 pages; 21 cm

Series Statement

French list

Uniform Title

French list.

Subject

• 1900-2099
• Authors > Interviews
• Novelists > 20th century > Interviews
• Novelists > 21st century > Interviews
• Literature, Modern > 20th century > History and criticism
• Literature, Modern > 21st century > History and criticism

Genre/Form

• Criticism, interpretation, etc.
• Interviews

Note

• "A rich collection of portraits of some fo the greatest writers of the twentieth and twenty-first centuries"--Page ix.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Translator's note -- Aharon Appelfeld: the salvation of sleep -- Saul Bellow: the hermit of Vermont -- Neil Bissoondath: reflecting on the secrets we keep -- A.S. Byatt: conversations with ghosts -- Don DeLillo: fiction helps us see and question ourselves -- Carlos Fuentes: the Iberindian -- Carlo Ginzburg: 'I prefer to trust in reality' -- Nadine Gordimer: the 'white African' -- Yu Hua: ten words -- Kazuo Ishiguro: words full of sound -- Imre Kertész: betting on life -- Milan Kundera: only the work matters -- John le Carré: triple agent -- Carlos Liscano: literature born of a prison cell -- Mario Vargas Llosa: one: literature is not a diversion -- Mario Vargas Llosa: two: public healer -- Javier Marías: we have all experienced betrayal -- Toni Morrison: 'without writing, I am lost' -- Harry Mulisch: overly dangerous zones -- Herta Müller: 'I don't trust eternity' -- Cees Nooteboom: soaring alongside the divine -- Jean-Bertrand Pontalis: we are made of thousands of others -- Sempé: 'nostalgia makes me laugh' -- Ersi Sotiropoulos: studying the inner movements of awareness -- William Trevor: 'I write because I want to know' -- Tomi Ungerer: the old robber -- Thanassis Valtinos: substance -- Enrique Vila-Matas: we're all actors on a stage.

ISBN

• 0857421069
• 9780857421067

OCLC

• 809911148
• SCSB-12601629

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library