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← Back to all issuesGranta 4: Beyond the Crisis
Spring 1981
In this issue, arguments for the future of publishing by Brigid Brophy, John Sutherland, David Caute, Blake Morrison, Per Gedin, David Godine and Walter Abish. Also, fiction from Martin Amis, Guy Davenport, Nicole Ward Jouve, Kenneth Bernard and Raymond Carver. Plus, an essay on realism and sexuality by Mario Vargas Llosa.
From this Issue
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Fifty-Seven Views of Fujiyama
Guy Davenport
‘So Sora, to be worthy of the beauty of the world, shaved his head the day we departed, and donned a wandering priest’s black robe, and took yet a third name, Sogo, which means Enlightened, for the road.’
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The Economics of Self-Censorship
Brigid Brophy
‘Which would you rather be: good or published?’
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The End of A Gentleman’s Profession
John Sutherland
‘It is convenient to think of fiction threading through four frames on its way to existence.’
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Sweat Shop Labour
David Caute
‘The aim is to coax the writer out of the isolation which keeps one end of the publishing industry comfortably in the nineteenth century.’
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Poetry and The Poetry Business
Blake Morrison
‘If there is one image that has dominated our notion of English poetry since 1945 it is that of restraint.’
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A Hand Made Art
Per Gedin
‘This new kind of ‘planned’ best-seller invariably influences every other form of book production, most notably that of the book selling.’
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David Godine | Interview
Eric Burns
‘David R. Godine is a respected, adventurous, outspoken publisher and a soi-disant cultural elitist.’
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But Why Write? The Writer-To-Be
Walter Abish
‘How to explain this resolve to write, this firm unwavering intent to become a writer on the part of someone who may not even really care for books?’
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Lucy
Lisa Zeidner
‘I needed to sit on two dictionaries to reach the piano, which was respectable, black and dimly European.’
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The Drawer
Nicole Ward Jouve
‘A husband was a leech. Sucked, sucked your substance, and no feedback ever, and where were you to refuel?’
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Sherry Fine: Conceptualist
Kenneth Bernard
‘When Jimmy Dellapiccolo first met her, she was in a SoHo gallery masturbating.’
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Vitamins
Raymond Carver
‘I worked a few hours a night for the hospital. It was a nothing job. I did some work, signed the card for eight hours, went drinking with the nurses.’
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La Orgía Perpetua An Essay on Sexuality and Realism
Mario Vargas Llosa
‘No character has been more persistently and passionately present than Emma Bovary.’
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The Beauty Disease
Patricia Hampl
‘Beauty, for my grandmother and my aunts, was divided like a territory into estates, each part governed by a different seignior.’
