Volume 8.1 / 8.2 (Double Issue)
Summer 1981 – 227 pages
Contributors: Victor-Lévy Beaulieu; Diane Keating; Italo Calvino; Stéphane Mallarmé; Claire Weissman Wilks; David I. Sceidlower; Jaroslav Hasek; Michel Beaulieu; Joy Kogawa; Seán Virgo
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VICTOR-LEVY BEAULIEU – Jos Connaissant
Victor-Levy Beaulieu of Canada is one of the most important and prolific writers in Quebec, the author of more than twenty books of fiction, essays and drama. A Quebecois Dream, a novel, was published by Exile Editions in 1978.
DIANE KEATING – Six Poems
Diane Keating of Canada’s works include In Dark Places.
ITALO CALVINO – If on a Winter’s Night a Traveller
Italo Calvino of Italy is the celebrated author of several novels and collections: The Baron in the Trees, Invisible Cities, Italian Folktales and If On A Winter’s Night A Traveler.
STÉPHANE MALLARMÉ – The Afternoon Of A Fawn: Eclogue
CLAIRE WEISSMAN WILKS – Drawings
Claire Weissman Wilks of Canada has published Drawings: 1975 and The Magic Box: The Eccentric Genius of Hannah Maynard.
DAVID I. SHEIDLOWER – Bugs: for Linda Liu
David I. Sheidlower of the United States is a writer of visually supported fiction. His Bus, for Benjamin Friedlander appeared in Exile, vol. 7, number 3 & 4.
JAROSLAV HASEK – The Red Commissar
Jaroslav Hasek is the author of the classic The Good Soldier Svejk. Nothing else of Hasek’s writing has ever before been translated or known in the West. Drawings by Josef Lada, the famous illustrator of Svejk, were added to the Red Commissar.
MICHEL BEAULIEU – Spells of Fury
Michel Beaulieu of Canada has published numerous books: Dessins, a collection of poems from 1959 to 1966, Civilites, Oracle des Ombres, and Amorces.
JOY KOGAWA – Obasan
Joy Kogawa of Canada is a poet and prose writer: The Splintered Moon, A Choice of Dreams, Jericho Road and Obasan.
SEÁN VIRGO – Selakhi
SeÁan Virgo of Canada is a poet and prize-winning story writer (CBC and BBC national fiction competitions, 1979 and 1980), and his collection White Lies And Other Fictions was published by Exile Editions in 1980.
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