ALAIN ELKANN INTERVIEW WITH AHARON APPELFELD IN THE PARIS REVIEW.

Published: Thu, 09/04/14

Dear Subscriber,

The Fall 2014 issue of The Paris Review contains an in-depth interview between Alain and the leading Israeli writer Aharon Appelfeld.

The interview is called The Art of Fiction No. 224 and a small extract reads as follows:-

INTERVIEWER

In your work, is the pre-Holocaust world like a fairy tale or a metaphor, the way money is for Balzac, snobbism for Proust, sex for Moravia? I mean, every writer describes the world with the particular obsession that is his metaphor, but then-

APPELFELD

I am not writing in metaphors. I am writing about catastrophes.

INTERVIEWER

Catastrophes?

APPELFELD

Yes. And what they do to the human soul. Because, generally, literature deals with civility, civilian life, homes, stability. With eating and sleeping, with loving.

The full interview is printed in the Fall Issue of the Paris Review which is out now, but will not be available to read online without charge until December. The Paris Review has kindly given us a custom link to their paid subscriber page for those who can't wait that long and want to read the interview now:- http://bit.ly/1u0nUup

With kind regards,