The Inner Adventure: Conversations with Louis Calaferte - Softcover

Pauty, Jean Pierre; Calaferte, Louis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0810160676 ISBN 13: 9780810160675

Publisher: Marlboro Press, 2003

Synopsis

Calaferte had recently been awarded the Grand Prix National des Lettres when he sat down with Jean-Pierre Pauty, a friend and movie director, to discuss his life and work. The Inner Adventure brings these interviews to English-speaking readers for the first time, revealing the creative process and philosophies of a writer who has challenged others with his brutal honesty and his view that only experience can be the basis of creativity, thought, and knowledge.

About this title

About the Author

Louis Calaferte was born in Turin in 1928. He was a playwright, poet, and writer of prose. His other works include C'est la Guerre and The Way It Works with Women, both published by the Marlboro Press/Northwestern. He died in 1994.

Jean-Pierre Pauty is a director whose works include the 1993 documentary on Louis Calaferte entitled Un îlot de résistance. 

Willard Wood is the translator of Anka Muhlstein's La Salle: Explorer of the North American Frontier and J.-C. Rufin's The Abyssinian  and The Siege of Isfahan.

From the Back Cover

Louis Calaferte once said, "My literary work is in fact nothing more than a diary in disguise." Calaferte had recently been awarded the Grand Prix National des Lettres when he sat down with Jean-Pierre Pauty, a friend and movie director, to discuss his life and work and the intimate intertwining of the two. The Inner Adventure brings these interviews to an English-speaking audience for the first time, revealing the creative process and philosophies of a celebrated writer, one whose work often challenged others because of his brutal honesty and his claim that only experience can be the basis of creativity, thought, and knowledge. Calaferte addresses Good and Evil, the oppressive nature of institutions, prayer, sex, and spiritual birth. He confirms his belief in the sacred but also his dedication to searching within himself rather than in the dogmas of established churches, claiming true faith is a battle inside our selves, an examination of our consciences.

Edition details

• Publisher: Marlboro Press
• Publication date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0810160676
• ISBN 13: 9780810160675
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 136