Literary Miniatures (The French List) - Hardcover

Noiville, Florence

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0857421069 ISBN 13: 9780857421067

Publisher: Seagull Books, 2013

Synopsis

Selected from the pages of Le Monde, the interviews conducted by Florence Noiville are unequaled in literary journalism. In Literary Miniatures, Noiville captures the words and views of some of the best known writers of the twentieth century, engaging luminaries like Saul Bellow, Nadine Gordimer, Aharon Appelfeld, and A. S. Byatt in revealing dialogue. In this collection, Noiville converses with Don DeLillo, reasons with Adolfo Bioy Casares, passes the time with Milan Kundera, and gently interrogates John Le Carré.

Fluent in many languages, Noiville conducted a number of these interviews in the subject’s native language, engaging these extraordinary writers on their own terms. Inimitably intimate, the interviews are a window through which readers can come to know the writers behind some of the greatest works of literature of the last one hundred years. Sure to delight lovers of literature and biography, this book is the perfect expression of the art of the interview and a priceless artifact for enthusiasts and scholars alike.

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About the Author

Florence Noiville, author and journalist, has been a staff writer for Le Monde since 1994, and editor of foreign fiction for Le Monde des Livres, the paper’s literary supplement. She is the author of several books for children, a biography of the Nobel Prize Laureate Isaac Bashevis Singer, a partly autobiographical essay, and two novels. Noiville lives in Paris. Teresa Lavender Fagan is a freelance translator who lives in Chicago. She has published over twenty translations.

Review

“It’s a remarkable piece of writing: a work that establishes its own literary style at the same time it probes and studies the styles of others. It’s a collection that will inspire readers to both seek out authors they discover here for the first time, as well as re-read old authors with a new sense of familiarity.” (PopMatters)

"A real delight to read with unexpected, tangential detours, an ear for the uncanny and a distilled, bare-boned way of writing." (Outlook India 2014-07-28)

About this edition

• Publisher: Seagull Books
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0857421069
• ISBN 13: 9780857421067
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 183