Tom Bishop, Donatien Grau: Literature Is a Voyage of Discovery

Tom Bishop, Donatien Grau

Literature Is a Voyage of Discovery
Tom Bishop in Conversation with Donatien Grau

Traduit par Peter Behrman de Sinéty

broché, 96 pages

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For over sixty years Tom Bishop has contributed to shaping the literary, philosophical, cultural, artistic, but also political conversation between Paris and New York. In his position as professor and director of the Center for French Civilization and Culture at New York University, he made the Washington Square institution one of the great bridges between French innovation and a New York scene that was then in full transformation. Tom Bishop was close to Beckett, championed Robbe-Grillet in the United States, befriended Marguerite Duras and Hélène Cixous, organized historic public encounters—such as the one between James Baldwin and Toni Morrison. He is also a scholar, a recognized specialist in the avant-garde, notably the Nouveau Roman and the Nouveau Théâtre.

In 2012, he invited Donatien Grau to give a talk at NYU. This invitation led to conversations—some of which are assembled in this book—and a frienship. Tom Bishop retraces his own history: his departure from Vienna, his studies, his meetings, his choices, his conception of literature and life, his relationship to the political and economic world; the way he helped define the profession of “curator” as it is practiced today. In these interviews he can be seen as a scholar, an organizer, a major intellectual; as an individual, with his anger, refusals, loyalty, his insatiable appetite for discovery and novelty, and his deep attachment to the university, a place of freedom and creation.

Table
  • 7–20

    First Takes

  • 21–38

    What Happend to the Avant-garde?

  • 39–87

    Journeys

  • 89–93

    Life

  • avant-garde
  • France
  • littérature

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Tom Bishop

Tom Bishop

(né en 1929 à Vienne en Autriche, vit et travaille à New York) est, depuis soixante ans, un chercheur et impresario de premier plan entre Paris et New York. Il a contribué à définir le dialogue culturel américano-français. Professeur de culture et civilisation françaises à l'Université de New York, où il a été directeur du Centre de civilisation et de culture françaises.
Donatien Grau

Donatien Grau

est chercheur et auteur. Il est actuellement conseiller pour les programmes contemporains au Louvre et préside l'Association Pierre Guyotat.
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