"Founded by Odile Hellier in 1982, The Village Voice Bookshop in Paris was a hub for anglophone literary life and a meeting place for French, American and English literati for over three decades. Hellier's collective memoir brings to life authors, publishers, and friends of the bookshop, and it narrates some of the most important reflections and debates of 20th century literary history. She has mined decades of archival footage to present anecdotes and insight from the spontaneous exchanges of literary and cultural icons like Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, Allen Ginsberg, Toni Morrison, Michael…mehr
"Founded by Odile Hellier in 1982, The Village Voice Bookshop in Paris was a hub for anglophone literary life and a meeting place for French, American and English literati for over three decades. Hellier's collective memoir brings to life authors, publishers, and friends of the bookshop, and it narrates some of the most important reflections and debates of 20th century literary history. She has mined decades of archival footage to present anecdotes and insight from the spontaneous exchanges of literary and cultural icons like Margaret Atwood, Don DeLillo, Allen Ginsberg, Toni Morrison, Michael Ondaatje, Jim Harrison, Barry Gifford, Raymond Carver, Adrienne Rich, David Sedaris, Amy Tan, Edmund White, Art Speigelman, Stephen Spender, and so many other shining lights. Village Voices is a life-long curatorial project by a bookseller trying to preserve the history of her much-loved bookstore. Her historical archive is an enduring conversation across time"--Hinweis: Dieser Artikel kann nur an eine deutsche Lieferadresse ausgeliefert werden.
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
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
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