The Inner Adventure: Conversations with Louis Calaferte [Paperback]

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 Adventurebrings 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.

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.

Louis Calaferte was born in Turin in 1928. He was a playwright, poet, and writer of prose. His other works include C'est la Guerreand 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 Frontierand J.-C. Rufin's The Abyssinian  and The Siege of Isfahan.

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