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As The Los Angeles Times wrote, New Mysteries of Paris is "not so much stories as character sketches, artfully drawn, as though told by people very close to their subjects - the narrator of Andra Breton's Nadja, a companion of King Farouk, the painter August Macka describing the young Paul Klee. Gifford is relentless in his imaginative scrutiny of human frailty." The four stories that evolve through each narrator's soul-searching are by turns straightforward, fantastic, bitter and erotic.

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Barry Gifford, author of Wild at Heart, Sailor's Holiday; and The Devil Thumbs a Ride; has received awards from PEN, the NEA, the Art Directors Club of New York and the ALA.His writing has appeared in Punch, Esquire, Rolling Stone, The New York Times and elsewhere. Mr. Gifford resides in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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In the title story of this collection, a man recalls an affair with an unconventional woman (Andre Breton's Nadja) whose history remains veiled to her lover; she instructs him to "invent" it. In "The Tunisian Notebook," Gifford does just that for the Swiss painter August Macke. Using as his source the diary of Macke's traveling companionno comma--there were 2 companions Paul Klee, Gifford sketches a diary for Macke. Those who have read Klee's diary will enjoy comparing the two. The pipe-smoking Klee believed that Macke found this habit "irresistible." Gifford writes, "Macke's unreasonable prejudice against Klee begins with his pipe." According to the author, Klee's attempt at literary style "resulted in . . . certain incidents being exaggerated or manufactured. . . ." Macke's diary is literature--fiction--but both versions are part artifice, part fact. Gifford raises intriguing questions here about the relationships between art, life and lies. The other two stories entertain: an artist recalls his many affairs in "The Brief Confession of an Unrepentant Erotic"; a libidinous Egyptian king in "The Yellow Palace" is described from the perspective of his aide and "procurer." Gifford ( Wild at Heart ) writes with compassion and wit about characters who travel off the beaten track.
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  • PublisherClark City Press
  • Publication date1991
  • ISBN 10 0944439314
  • ISBN 13 9780944439319
  • BindingPaperback
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages82
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