Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews

Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews - Paperback

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Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews - Paperback

Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews - Paperback

by Mavis Gallant
$18.95
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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 Günter 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.
ISBN9781567927894
Author Mavis Gallant
PublisherGodine Nonpareil
GenreLiterature
FormatPaperback
PublishedSeptember 2023
LanguageENG- English
Pages392
Weight1.0 lb
Target AudienceAdults
Print SizeStandard Print

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Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews

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About Mavis Gallant

Mavis Gallant (1922-2014) was born in Montreal and worked as a journalist at the Montreal Standard before moving to Europe to devote herself to writing fiction. After traveling extensively she settled in Paris, where she lived until her death. The New Yorker published 116 of her stories. She was the recipient of the 2002 Rea Award for the Short Story and the 2004 PEN/Nabokov Award for lifetime achievement. NYRB Classics has published three collections of Gallant's stories: The Cost of Living: The Early and Uncollected Stories of Mavis Gallant, Paris Stories, and Varieties of Exile as well as a volume containing two novels, A Fairly Good Time and Green Water, Green Sky.

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