The Inner Adventure: Conversations with Louis Calaferte

by Jean Pierre Pauty, Louis Calaferte, Willard Wood (Translator)

Overview

Calaferte had recently been awarded the Grand Prix National des Lettres when he sat down with Jean-Pierre Pauty, a friend and movie director, to discuss his life and work. The Inner Adventure brings these interviews to English-speaking readers for the first time, revealing the creative process and philosophies of a writer who has challenged others with his brutal honesty and his view that only experience can be the basis of creativity, thought, and knowledge.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780810160675
Publisher:	Northwestern University Press
Publication date:	02/26/2003
Edition description:	1
Pages:	136
Product dimensions:	5.00(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.30(d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

Louis Calaferte was born in Turin in 1928. He was a playwright, poet, and writer of prose. His other works include C'est la Guerre and The Way It Works with Women, both published by the Marlboro Press/Northwestern. He died in 1994.

Jean-Pierre Pauty is a director whose works include the 1993 documentary on Louis Calaferte entitled Un îlot de résistance. 

Willard Wood is the translator of Anka Muhlstein's La Salle: Explorer of the North American Frontier and J.-C. Rufin's The Abyssinian  and The Siege of Isfahan.

Table of Contents

Preface

Conversations
Break with the Past
The Dark Forces
Of Spiritual Factors
Islands of Prayer
Incarnation
The Way It Works with Women
The Sands of Time
Memento mori

An Island of Resistance
The Theater: Early Days
Intimist Theater and Baroque Theater
Painting

Chronology
Notes
Bibliography