Literature Is a Voyage of Discovery

Tom Bishop in Conversation with Donatien Grau
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-3-0358-0366-2
Verlag: diaphanes

Buch, Englisch, 96 Seiten, Format (B × H): 118 mm x 190 mm, Gewicht: 114 g

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Grau, Donatien

Bishop, Tom

Weitere Mitwirkende

Sinéty, Peter Behrman de

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Romanische Literaturen Französische Literatur
• Geisteswissenschaften Literaturwissenschaft Einzelne Autoren: Monographien & Biographien

Inhaltsverzeichnis

7	-	20	First Takes	(Tom Bishop, Donatien Grau)
21	-	38	What Happend to the Avant-garde?	(Tom Bishop, Donatien Grau)
39	-	87	Journeys	(Tom Bishop, Donatien Grau)
89	-	93	Life	(Tom Bishop, Donatien Grau)

Über Autor(innen)

Grau, Donatien
Donatien Grau ist derzeit Head of Contemporary Programs am Louvre, Paris, und Vorsitzender der Association Pierre Guyotat. Er ist Herausgeber und Autor mehrerer Bücher. Zuletzt erschien sein Buch über Leben und Werk Azzedine Alaïas (Actes Sud, 2020) und Living Museums. Conversations with Leading Museum Directors (Hatje Cantz, 2020).

Bishop, Tom
Tom Bishop has 
been a professor at New York University for sixty-five years. For nearly 
fifty years he directed the university's Center for French Literature 
and Civilization, which he  made into a crucial venue for French 
intellectual life in New York. As a self-described "ocean ferryman," a 
friend and fellow traveler of Samuel Beckett, Hélène Cixous, Eugène 
Ionesco, Alain Robbe-Grillet, and many others, he built a bridge between 
the worlds of literature, philosophy, and art, as well as politics and 
economics, between New York and Paris. His work as a scholar, essayist 
and curator has allowed many encounters between creative figures, 
scholars and cultural leaders.