今回紹介するのはインタヴュー集です。
L. S. Dembo and Cyrena N. Pondrom, The Contemporary Writer: Interviews with Sixteen Novelists and Poets, Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1972.
編者のデンボはウィスコンシン大学の教授でContemporary Writerの編集に尽力した人物でした。
L. S. Dembo, a scholar of modernist poetry, became editor of the journal in 1966 and shortened its title two years later. During his twenty-four years as editor, Dembo’s dedication to all that is exciting in modern and contemporary literature helped the journal to attain the international readership and large subscription base that he and the associate editors (Cyrena N. Pondrom, Betsy Draine, Phillip Herring, Jay Clayton, and Thomas Schaub) sought for it.
Cyrena N. Pondrom – University of Wisconsin Press Blog
Barth and Hawkes emphasizes the imaginative world, but their fiction often has a realistic point of departure; Sundman remains chiefly a realist; Singer emphasizes the real world but hints at a "miraculous" one beyond it; Nabokov and Borges are caught up in artifices and imaginative patterns.
p. xx. "Introduction" L. S. D., C. N. P.
デンボは1967年にはナボコフについての論集も編集しています。
Introduction
NOVELISTS
John Hawkes
John Barth
Saul Bellow
Vladimir Nabokov
Isaac Bashevis Singer
Jorge Luis Borges
Sara Lidman
Per Olof Sundman
POETS
James Merrill
Kenneth Rexroth
George Oppen
Carl Rakosi
Charles Reznikoff
Louis Zukofsky
Gwendolyn Brooks
George Barker
Calendar of Interviews
Index
インタヴュー自体は1966年9月25-29日にアペル・ジュニアによっておこなわれ、
Contemporary Literature, vol 8.(2) Spring 1967 に掲載されたもののようです。
