Odile Hellier

Village Voices (eBook, ePUB)

A Memoir of the Village Voice Bookshop, Paris, 1982-2012

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

A celebration of the legacy of the Village Voice bookshop in Paris, founded by Odile Hellier in 1982-a hub of social life and a refuge for artists, writers, and anglophone literary life for over three decades until it closed in 2012. "My entire sense of Paris centers on Odile and the bookshop." -Richard Ford "For literature lovers, it's a feast." -Publishers Weekly In July of 1982, on a quiet boulevard just off the bustling Boulevard Saint-German, Odile Hellier opened the Village Voice Bookshop. Over the next three decades, the blue-shuttered shop would become one of the most famous English-language bookstores in Paris-a vivacious hub for artists, writers, and a haven for anglophone literary life. After the its closing, Odile found herself with hundreds of tapes of various talks given at the bookshop by the greatest artists of their generation. These voices from the past were the spontaneous exchanges of literary and cultural icons such as Susan Sontag, Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, Allen Ginsberg, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje, Jim Harrison, Barry Gifford, Adrienne Rich, David Sedaris, Amy Tan, Edmund White, Art Spiegelman, and Stephen Spender, all of whom were drawn to Odile's tiny bookstore on Rue Princesse. This carefully curated historical archive is an enduring conversation across time, and a memoir of one woman's beloved store. "… when you squeezed into the narrow event space on the Voice's upper floor, French and international book lovers mingled with Parisian editors and publishers, shared a glass of wine, a new discovery, a heretical opinion, and took the conversation outside to the sidewalk of the Rue Princesse, for another shared pleasure: an unguilty cigarette." - Livia Manera, The New Yorker "A stroll from rue de l'Odéon, Les Deux Magots or the Luxembourg Gardens, the hanging sign reads Village Voice: Anglo-American Bookshop. The narrow door and window frames are painted Greek island blue… Lingering a while in front of the window display, you'll want to dive inside, into an ocean of story." -Hazel Rowley, Bookforum

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Seven Stories Press
• Seitenzahl: 384
• Erscheinungstermin: 24. September 2024
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781644213803
• Artikelnr.: 68550156

Autorenporträt

Odile Hellier was born in the South of France during World War II and raised in the two different regions of Lorraine, near the German border still haunted by past wars, and Brittany fronting the Atlantic Ocean. After advanced studies in Russian language and literature she taught in high school for two years, she decided to broaden her scope and work in world organizations. During the fall of 1968, Hellier enrolled in a professional school in Paris that trained translators and interpreters in international relations. Hellier is the founder and owner of the Village Voice Bookshop-a hub of Anglophone literary life and culture that operated in the heart of Saint-Germain-des-Prés in Paris for over thirty years. This book is Hellier's archival project and personal memoir. Charles Kenneth "C. K." Williams (introduction) was an American poet, critic and translator. Williams won many poetry awards. Flesh and Blood won the National Book Critics Circle Award in 1987. Repair won the 2000 Pulitzer Prize for Poetry, was a National Book Award finalist and won the Los Angeles Times Book Prize.

Inhaltsangabe

Foreword
 
Prologue
 
Introduction
 
PART ONE - “Paris, Paris, Above All, Paris”
1 - It Takes a Village: A Time and a Place
 
2 - The Lost and Found Generation: Paris Was a Woman
Noël Riley Fitch, Shari Benstock, Joan Schenkar
 
3 - The Third Wave of American Expatriates and the Small Presses
John Strand, Kathy Acker, Edward Limono, Ricardo Mosner, Carol Pratl, David
Applefield, Jim Haynes
4 - Black American in Paris: Updating the Myth “Remember Me”: The Legacies
of James
Baldwin and Richard Wright
Gordon Heath, Julia Wright, Ernest Gaine, James Emanuel, Jake Lamar
 
5 - Emergence of a Literary Force: To Each Writer Their Own Paris
Diane Johnson, Steven Barclay, David Downie, David Sedaris, Edmund White
The Cultural Divide
Diane Johnson, Adam Gopnik, Edmund White
 
6 - From Home to Paris and Elsewhere: Irish Writers at the Village Voice
Bookshop
Tributes to James Joyce and Samuel Beckett
Zeljko Ivanjek, John Calder, Anne Atik
Living in Words to Tell the World
Harry Chifton and Deirdre Madden
 
7 - Varieties of Exile: Two Canadian Parisian
Nancy Huston, Mavis Gallant
 
8 - Dark Times: An Anglo-American Focus on the Vichy Regime
Raymond Federman, Carmen Callil, Alan Riding, Alice Kaplan on Louis
Guilloux
Intermezzo: One Decade Ends,
A New One Begin
 
PART TWO - A Literary Journey Across the United States
 
9 - An Era of Hope Leading to Disillusionment
Julian Beck, Judith Malina, Allen Ginsberg, Jayne Cortez, Andrei
Voznesensky, Kazuko Shiraishi, Lawrence Ferlinghetti, Hubert Selby Jr.,
William H. Gass, William Gaddis, Don DeLillo
 
10 - Bright Lights and Twilights
Jay McInerney, Jerome Charyn, Richard Price, James Ellroy
 
11 - Highways and Byways
Barry Gifford, David Payne, John Biguenet, Terry Tempest Williams
 
12 - Spectacular Sceneries, Ordinary Lives: American Writers Reel in the
French Imagination
Jim Harrison, Raymond Carver, Jonathan Raban, Richard Ford, Russell Banks
 
13 - Four Remarkable Women Breaking from Convention
Hazel Rowley, Grace Paley, Adrienne Rich, Susan Sontag
 
14 - Native American Renaissance: Storytelling as Repossession
James Welch, Louise Erdrich, Sherman Alexie, David Treuer
 
15 - “Me and you . . . we need some kind of tomorrow.” Open Wounds in
African American Literature
Jake Lamar, John Edgar Wideman, Paule Marshall, Barbara Chase-Riboud, Jayne
Cortez, Sapphire, Toni Morrison
 
16 - Shadow Lands: The Here and There in American Stories of Exile
André Aciman, Amy Tan, Jamaica Kincaid, Dinaw Mengestu, Junot Díaz, Azar
Nafisi
 
17 - Memories of Silenced Lives
The Holocaust: Naming the Inexpressible
Gwen Edelman, Gitta Sereny, Cynthia Ozick, Art Spiegelman, Nicole Krauss,
Daniel Mendelsohn
Intermezzo: The Twenty-First Century is Upon Us
Adam Zagajewski, Jacques Derrida
 
PART THREE - Rounding Out Shakespeare’s Stage: Commonwealth Literatures
 
18 - Expanding Horizons: British Literature in Pursuit of Renewal
David Lodge, Antonia Byatt
 
19 - In the Footsteps of Salman Rushdie: Life Stories from the Indian
Subcontinent
Hanif Kureishi, Abha Dawesar, Tarun Tejpal
 
20 - Reshaping South Africa: Moving Forward and Out of Apartheid
Denis Hirson, Breyten Breytenbach, Mandla Langa, Damon Galgut
 
21 - Australian Narratives: As Wide and Varied as the Country
Peter Carey, Tim Winton, Julia Leigh
 
22 - Multilayered English Canadian Voices: Lingering Memories of Europe
Margaret Atwood, Jane Urquhart, Michael Ondaatje
 
PART FOUR - Closing Ceremonies
 
23 - The Center Holds: Our Circle of Poets
Stephen Spender, Harry Mathews, Marilyn Hacker, Margo Berdeshevsky, Marie
Ponsot, Kathleen Spivack, C.K. Williams, Ellen Hinsey, William S. Merwin
 
Epilogue
 
Acknowledgments
 
Notes
 
Index