Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews by Gallant, Mavis
Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews by Gallant, Mavis

Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews

"A superb collection...Page after page, Gallant dazzles. Her voice and sensibility are penetrating, canny, graceful, and incisive."--Washington...
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Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews by Gallant, Mavis

Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews

$28.91
Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews by Gallant, Mavis

Paris Notebooks: Essays & Reviews

$28.91
Author: Mavis Gallant
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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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.

Author: Mavis Gallant
Publisher: Godine Nonpareil
Published: 09/26/2023
Pages: 392
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.88lbs
Size: 7.40h x 5.20w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9781567927894


Review Citation(s):
Publishers Weekly 07/31/2023

About the Author
Gallant, Mavis: -

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. In 1950, after traveling extensively, she settled in Paris, where she would remain for the rest of her life. Over the course of her career Gallant published more than one hundred stories and dispatches in The New Yorker. In 2002 she received the Rea Award for the Short Story and in 2004, the PEN/Nabokov Award for lifetime achievement.

Lee, Hermione: -

Hermione Lee is emeritus professor of English literature at Oxford University. Her work includes biographies of Virginia Woolf, Edith Wharton, and Penelope Fitzgerald. She has also written books on Elizabeth Bowen, Philip Roth, and Willa Cather. Lee was awarded the Biographers' Club Prize for Exceptional Contribution to Biography in 2018. She is a fellow of the British Academy and the Royal Society of Literature and a foreign honorary member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. In 2003 she was made a Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire, and in 2013 she was made a Dame for services to literary scholarship.

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