I knew the name of every raindrop
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Book Introduction
- A word from MD
- [Problematic short stories selected by world-renowned writers] The American literary quarterly [The Paris Review] has served as a gateway for aspiring writers and a literary laboratory, contributing to the diversity of short story literature.
This book contains only short stories that have been published in [The Paris Review], selected by masters who have achieved significant literary achievements.
We invite you to the infinitely expanded world of literature.
- Novel MD Kim So-jeong
The Paris Review is paying attention to the 'Literary Laboratory'
Selected and selected by genre masters
Fifteen colorful fragments that convey the universe in sentences
The Paris Review, an American literary quarterly known as the "writer's dream stage," asked world-renowned authors a special question to determine the short story that achieved the greatest literary achievement.
The Paris Review asked us to pick our favorite short story from the past half-century and explain why we thought it was so outstanding.
"I Knew the Name of Every Raindrop" is a short story collection created by selecting works chosen by fifteen writers.
As the title suggests, this book contains fifteen short stories that are the essence and exemplars of short stories.
Each short story has annotations by world-renowned authors, making it an 'educational read.'
The authors who participated include Ali Smith, who has recently emerged as one of the most notable authors with her 'Four Seasons' series ('Autumn', 'Winter', 'Spring', and 'Summer'); Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides; Man Booker International Prize winner Lydia Davis; and Aleksandar Hemon, a screenwriter for the Wachowski sisters' films and dramas and considered one of the best essayists.
Readers can gain a deeper understanding and exploration of literature through introductions that describe why genre masters love and appreciate the novel the most.
This book will provide fresh inspiration to young writers and readers who love literature.
It makes you realize how diverse the format of a novel can be and how much pleasure literature can bring.
Selected and selected by genre masters
Fifteen colorful fragments that convey the universe in sentences
The Paris Review, an American literary quarterly known as the "writer's dream stage," asked world-renowned authors a special question to determine the short story that achieved the greatest literary achievement.
The Paris Review asked us to pick our favorite short story from the past half-century and explain why we thought it was so outstanding.
"I Knew the Name of Every Raindrop" is a short story collection created by selecting works chosen by fifteen writers.
As the title suggests, this book contains fifteen short stories that are the essence and exemplars of short stories.
Each short story has annotations by world-renowned authors, making it an 'educational read.'
The authors who participated include Ali Smith, who has recently emerged as one of the most notable authors with her 'Four Seasons' series ('Autumn', 'Winter', 'Spring', and 'Summer'); Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides; Man Booker International Prize winner Lydia Davis; and Aleksandar Hemon, a screenwriter for the Wachowski sisters' films and dramas and considered one of the best essayists.
Readers can gain a deeper understanding and exploration of literature through introductions that describe why genre masters love and appreciate the novel the most.
This book will provide fresh inspiration to young writers and readers who love literature.
It makes you realize how diverse the format of a novel can be and how much pleasure literature can bring.
- You can preview some of the book's contents.
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index
Editor's Note - A literary laboratory challenging new writing styles.
Translator's Note - A New World for Every Writer
Car Accident While Hitchhiking | Dennis Johnson
A poignant and sharp narrative that shatters conventions - Jeffrey Eugenides
A Vague Time | Joy Williams
A vivid text that seems to whisper in your ear - Daniel Alarcón
Don't You Want to Dance | Raymond Carver
Great Stories Have an Eternal Itch - David Minns
Palace Thief | Ethan Canin
A profound depth of wisdom, mystery, and intricacy - Laurie Moore
The Flying Carpet | Steven Millhauser
An accumulation of subtle sensations that transform ordinary life into fantasy - Daniel Orozco
The Diary of Emmy Moore | Jane Bowles
The speaker, the narration, the humor—everything is clear. - Lydia Davis
Bangkok | James Salter
A Short Masterpiece of Dialogue - Dave Eggers
The Pelican's Song | Marybeth Hughes
Heartbreaking Sorrow - Mary Getskill
Funes, the Man Who Remembers Everything | Jorge Luis Borges
We are wonderful because we fail forever - Aleksandar Hemon
Old Birds | Bernard Cooper
A masterful treatment of anger, affection, longing, and fear - Amy Hempel
Lake Likely | Mary Robison
After reading this novel, I couldn't do anything else for a while - Sam Lipsite
Ten Stories from Flaubert | Lydia Davis
Conveying the Universe in a Few Sentences - Ali Smith
The Liars | Norman Rush
The editor decided to publish it immediately after reading the first sentence - Mona Simpson
Mrs. Bridge's High Society | Evan S.
Cornel
A unique character who brings a whole new sense of compassion - Wells Tower
Overnight flight to Stockholm | Dallas Weave
A funny and bizarre story even in these crazy times - Joy Williams
Translator's Note - A New World for Every Writer
Car Accident While Hitchhiking | Dennis Johnson
A poignant and sharp narrative that shatters conventions - Jeffrey Eugenides
A Vague Time | Joy Williams
A vivid text that seems to whisper in your ear - Daniel Alarcón
Don't You Want to Dance | Raymond Carver
Great Stories Have an Eternal Itch - David Minns
Palace Thief | Ethan Canin
A profound depth of wisdom, mystery, and intricacy - Laurie Moore
The Flying Carpet | Steven Millhauser
An accumulation of subtle sensations that transform ordinary life into fantasy - Daniel Orozco
The Diary of Emmy Moore | Jane Bowles
The speaker, the narration, the humor—everything is clear. - Lydia Davis
Bangkok | James Salter
A Short Masterpiece of Dialogue - Dave Eggers
The Pelican's Song | Marybeth Hughes
Heartbreaking Sorrow - Mary Getskill
Funes, the Man Who Remembers Everything | Jorge Luis Borges
We are wonderful because we fail forever - Aleksandar Hemon
Old Birds | Bernard Cooper
A masterful treatment of anger, affection, longing, and fear - Amy Hempel
Lake Likely | Mary Robison
After reading this novel, I couldn't do anything else for a while - Sam Lipsite
Ten Stories from Flaubert | Lydia Davis
Conveying the Universe in a Few Sentences - Ali Smith
The Liars | Norman Rush
The editor decided to publish it immediately after reading the first sentence - Mona Simpson
Mrs. Bridge's High Society | Evan S.
Cornel
A unique character who brings a whole new sense of compassion - Wells Tower
Overnight flight to Stockholm | Dallas Weave
A funny and bizarre story even in these crazy times - Joy Williams
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Being loved took longer than I thought.
Hair and legs grew longer.
My teeth were covered in moss like pebbles in a stream.
He ate bread by the sea and threw the crumbs into the water.
The world was a gray graveyard, and rain fell straight from the shrouded sky into the sea.
--- p.47, from Joy Williams' "Dim Time"
Mal learned that nothing can be trusted in a joyless life, and that death is everywhere, so mourning doesn't necessarily require a corpse.
Peach seeds are loaded with cyanide.
There's meningitis in a folded napkin, and polio in a wet shower.
Eternity is in the evening air.
--- p.47, from Joy Williams' "Dim Time"
“You’re not thinking about that yet, are you?”
“I just sometimes wondered what happened back then.”
“Yeah, you should have been there.”
Oh, how little you understand humanity if you think you can easily forget the insults of childhood!
--- p.166, from Lee Sun Canin's "The Palace Thief"
When the long summers of our childhood came, our games would suddenly catch fire, burn brightly, and then disappear forever.
Summer was long and long, longer and longer than the entire year, stretching slowly beyond the edge of life, but each of its vast moments eventually drew nearer to its end.
That's what summer was all about.
--- p.193, from "The Flying Carpet" by Stephen Millhauser
I'll try to be honest with you because I don't want to live with you and be difficult.
Even if it means throwing my efforts to look attractive out the window and being left alone, no better than an illiterate resident of the outback or a flat fish crawling on the bottom of the sea, I'll choose this side.
--- p.221, from "The Diary of Amy Moore" by Jane Bowles
The room was swimming.
He couldn't hold his thoughts.
The past swept over him like a sudden flood.
The past did not pass as it was, but as something we cannot forget.
--- p.245, from James Salter's "Bangkok"
Sometimes I skim the back pages of books.
It focuses on murder mystery novels that treat women as disposable items.
Especially when I read books by authors who seem to be pseudonyms, I read their words of gratitude, waiting for the day when they will have the courage to tell me what a wonderful and beautiful person my mother is, and that it was she who made it all possible, absolutely everything.
--- p.274, from "The Song of the Pelican" by Marybeth Hughes
In fact, we live our lives putting off everything that can be put off.
Perhaps deep down we all believe that we are immortal and that sooner or later all humans will be able to do and know everything.
--- p.290, from Jorge Luiz Borges' "Funes the One Who Remembers Everything"
Despite the desperation to find my father, I prepared to crawl back into bed.
I love surrender, the stillness of rest, gravity, like a stone I hold but won't drop.
--- p.313, from Bernard Cooper's "Old Birds"
It seems that the human species has decided to take the most optimistic view possible of ghosts.
Spiritualism, which started out with a bang by claiming that the dead return with a vicious vengeance, soon began to be enlightened into modern spiritualism, which views death as a happy summer day.
--- p.388, from Norman Rush's "The Liar"
That's what she wanted to tell him: people don't have equal rights.
But after a few minutes of discussion, I started to feel confused and overwhelmed by a sense of inadequacy.
Then he stared at her for a moment as if she were something in a glass box, then went back to what he was doing.
--- p.416, Evan S.
From "Mrs. Bridge's High Society" by Connell
“Gabe, tomorrow, Friday, January 13, 1978, I’ll be sixty-six, and I’ve been writing novels my whole life, but no one has ever published a single word.
“I would give my left little finger if I could get my novel published in the Paris Review.”
Hair and legs grew longer.
My teeth were covered in moss like pebbles in a stream.
He ate bread by the sea and threw the crumbs into the water.
The world was a gray graveyard, and rain fell straight from the shrouded sky into the sea.
--- p.47, from Joy Williams' "Dim Time"
Mal learned that nothing can be trusted in a joyless life, and that death is everywhere, so mourning doesn't necessarily require a corpse.
Peach seeds are loaded with cyanide.
There's meningitis in a folded napkin, and polio in a wet shower.
Eternity is in the evening air.
--- p.47, from Joy Williams' "Dim Time"
“You’re not thinking about that yet, are you?”
“I just sometimes wondered what happened back then.”
“Yeah, you should have been there.”
Oh, how little you understand humanity if you think you can easily forget the insults of childhood!
--- p.166, from Lee Sun Canin's "The Palace Thief"
When the long summers of our childhood came, our games would suddenly catch fire, burn brightly, and then disappear forever.
Summer was long and long, longer and longer than the entire year, stretching slowly beyond the edge of life, but each of its vast moments eventually drew nearer to its end.
That's what summer was all about.
--- p.193, from "The Flying Carpet" by Stephen Millhauser
I'll try to be honest with you because I don't want to live with you and be difficult.
Even if it means throwing my efforts to look attractive out the window and being left alone, no better than an illiterate resident of the outback or a flat fish crawling on the bottom of the sea, I'll choose this side.
--- p.221, from "The Diary of Amy Moore" by Jane Bowles
The room was swimming.
He couldn't hold his thoughts.
The past swept over him like a sudden flood.
The past did not pass as it was, but as something we cannot forget.
--- p.245, from James Salter's "Bangkok"
Sometimes I skim the back pages of books.
It focuses on murder mystery novels that treat women as disposable items.
Especially when I read books by authors who seem to be pseudonyms, I read their words of gratitude, waiting for the day when they will have the courage to tell me what a wonderful and beautiful person my mother is, and that it was she who made it all possible, absolutely everything.
--- p.274, from "The Song of the Pelican" by Marybeth Hughes
In fact, we live our lives putting off everything that can be put off.
Perhaps deep down we all believe that we are immortal and that sooner or later all humans will be able to do and know everything.
--- p.290, from Jorge Luiz Borges' "Funes the One Who Remembers Everything"
Despite the desperation to find my father, I prepared to crawl back into bed.
I love surrender, the stillness of rest, gravity, like a stone I hold but won't drop.
--- p.313, from Bernard Cooper's "Old Birds"
It seems that the human species has decided to take the most optimistic view possible of ghosts.
Spiritualism, which started out with a bang by claiming that the dead return with a vicious vengeance, soon began to be enlightened into modern spiritualism, which views death as a happy summer day.
--- p.388, from Norman Rush's "The Liar"
That's what she wanted to tell him: people don't have equal rights.
But after a few minutes of discussion, I started to feel confused and overwhelmed by a sense of inadequacy.
Then he stared at her for a moment as if she were something in a glass box, then went back to what he was doing.
--- p.416, Evan S.
From "Mrs. Bridge's High Society" by Connell
“Gabe, tomorrow, Friday, January 13, 1978, I’ll be sixty-six, and I’ve been writing novels my whole life, but no one has ever published a single word.
“I would give my left little finger if I could get my novel published in the Paris Review.”
--- p.440, from Dallas Weave's "Night Flight to Stockholm"
Publisher's Review
Short stories highlighted by the Paris Review's "Literary Laboratory"
★Huffington Post Book of the Year★
★New York Magazine Book of the Year★
Recommendations from young writers leading Korean literature!
The Paris Review was the conduit through which my most literary dreams came true.
Those dreams have now arrived here as a reality_Jeong Ji-don
Looking for a collection of short stories in various colors?
A Novel Collection Recommended for You_Choi Eun-young
Read this book and learn more
Approached the novel_Pyeon Hye-young
The Paris Review is paying attention to the 'Literary Laboratory'
Selected and selected by genre masters
“I knew the name of every raindrop.
I sensed everything before I even woke up.
Just hearing the affectionate voices of the family in the car
“We knew we were going to have an accident in the storm.”
- From "Car Accident While Hitchhiking"
The aftertaste of a short story of just a few pages is sometimes stronger than that of a full-length novel.
The Paris Review, an American literary quarterly known as the "writer's dream stage," asked world-renowned authors a special question to determine the short story that achieved the greatest literary achievement.
The Paris Review asked us to pick our favorite short story from the past half-century and explain why we thought it was so outstanding.
《I Knew the Name of Every Raindrop》 is a short story collection created by selecting works selected by fifteen writers.
Some authors chose classics, while others chose completely new novels.
The original title, 'Object Lessons', means 'practical education'.
As the title suggests, this book contains fifteen short stories that are the essence and exemplars of short stories.
Conveying the universe in sentences
Fifteen Colored Fragments
“We are not loud agitators or conspirators,
We welcome good writers and poets.
“As long as you write well, you can do it anytime.” - The Paris Review
The Paris Review, which Time magazine called "the world's most powerful literary magazine," has served as a gateway for young writers and a literary "laboratory" for writers exploring new styles for over 70 years since its founding in 1953.
It shows comprehensive and bold editing that is not limited to the author's career, country of origin, gender, or genre.
This book includes authors who have established a large readership in Korea, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Carver, and James Salter, but most of the other authors have had very few translated and published books in Korea or have never been introduced at all.
Dennis Johnson's "Hitchhiking in a Car Accident" shows in a dangerous sentence that "humans are only human when faced with misfortune, and no one can become God."
Joy Williams's "Dim Time" tells the story of a boy's inner loneliness after a misfortune, with delicate descriptions that "always whisper in my ear," while Jane Bowles's "The Diary of Emmy Moore" moves us to sorrow "with just the simple gesture of sitting down on a chair with a bottle in hand."
Norman Rush's "The Liars" sharply examines how human fear has influenced history and society.
After reading Stephen Millhauser's "The Flying Carpet," you will "summon a memory of a summer day that you didn't even know you had in your heart."
As you read diverse novels, you realize that the ways to write stories can be infinitely expanded.
A good story has no rules, no limits, no absolute truth.
All great writers tell stories according to their own rules and methods.
With the release of world-renowned authors
A unique experience and deeper understanding
Each short story has annotations by world-renowned authors, making it an 'educational read.'
The authors who participated include Ali Smith, who has recently emerged as one of the most notable authors with the 'Four Seasons' series (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer); Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides; Man Booker International Prize winner Lydia Davis; and Aleksandar Hemon, a screenwriter for the Wachowski sisters' films and dramas and considered one of the best essayists.
Readers can gain a deeper understanding and exploration of literature through introductions that describe why genre masters love and appreciate the novel most.
This book will provide fresh inspiration to young writers and readers who love literature.
It makes you realize how diverse the format of a novel can be and how much pleasure literature can bring.
Praise for this book from local media
The Paris Review describes this book as a guide for young writers and readers seeking to master literary writing.
This book not only achieves that goal, but also supports the role of The Paris Review in contributing to the diversity of short stories.
This book reminds us that good stories stay with us, whispering in each other's ears.
_〈Publisher's Weekly〉
The authors of this book, which collects short stories that The Paris Review has particularly noted, are all ambitious.
This book is like a special performance that examines the literary achievements of the past half-century. _〈Kirkus〉
The quintessence of maddeningly engaging writing, delivered by the best literary experts and storytellers. _New York Magazine
The short stories in this book are truly diverse and each have their own unique style.
But there is one thing in common.
The point is that it gives a shocking impression.
_〈Christian Science Monitor〉
This book, with its extraordinary depth, provides readers with a new perspective on understanding short stories.
_〈Minneapolis Star Tribune〉
★Huffington Post Book of the Year★
★New York Magazine Book of the Year★
Recommendations from young writers leading Korean literature!
The Paris Review was the conduit through which my most literary dreams came true.
Those dreams have now arrived here as a reality_Jeong Ji-don
Looking for a collection of short stories in various colors?
A Novel Collection Recommended for You_Choi Eun-young
Read this book and learn more
Approached the novel_Pyeon Hye-young
The Paris Review is paying attention to the 'Literary Laboratory'
Selected and selected by genre masters
“I knew the name of every raindrop.
I sensed everything before I even woke up.
Just hearing the affectionate voices of the family in the car
“We knew we were going to have an accident in the storm.”
- From "Car Accident While Hitchhiking"
The aftertaste of a short story of just a few pages is sometimes stronger than that of a full-length novel.
The Paris Review, an American literary quarterly known as the "writer's dream stage," asked world-renowned authors a special question to determine the short story that achieved the greatest literary achievement.
The Paris Review asked us to pick our favorite short story from the past half-century and explain why we thought it was so outstanding.
《I Knew the Name of Every Raindrop》 is a short story collection created by selecting works selected by fifteen writers.
Some authors chose classics, while others chose completely new novels.
The original title, 'Object Lessons', means 'practical education'.
As the title suggests, this book contains fifteen short stories that are the essence and exemplars of short stories.
Conveying the universe in sentences
Fifteen Colored Fragments
“We are not loud agitators or conspirators,
We welcome good writers and poets.
“As long as you write well, you can do it anytime.” - The Paris Review
The Paris Review, which Time magazine called "the world's most powerful literary magazine," has served as a gateway for young writers and a literary "laboratory" for writers exploring new styles for over 70 years since its founding in 1953.
It shows comprehensive and bold editing that is not limited to the author's career, country of origin, gender, or genre.
This book includes authors who have established a large readership in Korea, such as Jorge Luis Borges, Raymond Carver, and James Salter, but most of the other authors have had very few translated and published books in Korea or have never been introduced at all.
Dennis Johnson's "Hitchhiking in a Car Accident" shows in a dangerous sentence that "humans are only human when faced with misfortune, and no one can become God."
Joy Williams's "Dim Time" tells the story of a boy's inner loneliness after a misfortune, with delicate descriptions that "always whisper in my ear," while Jane Bowles's "The Diary of Emmy Moore" moves us to sorrow "with just the simple gesture of sitting down on a chair with a bottle in hand."
Norman Rush's "The Liars" sharply examines how human fear has influenced history and society.
After reading Stephen Millhauser's "The Flying Carpet," you will "summon a memory of a summer day that you didn't even know you had in your heart."
As you read diverse novels, you realize that the ways to write stories can be infinitely expanded.
A good story has no rules, no limits, no absolute truth.
All great writers tell stories according to their own rules and methods.
With the release of world-renowned authors
A unique experience and deeper understanding
Each short story has annotations by world-renowned authors, making it an 'educational read.'
The authors who participated include Ali Smith, who has recently emerged as one of the most notable authors with the 'Four Seasons' series (Autumn, Winter, Spring, Summer); Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jeffrey Eugenides; Man Booker International Prize winner Lydia Davis; and Aleksandar Hemon, a screenwriter for the Wachowski sisters' films and dramas and considered one of the best essayists.
Readers can gain a deeper understanding and exploration of literature through introductions that describe why genre masters love and appreciate the novel most.
This book will provide fresh inspiration to young writers and readers who love literature.
It makes you realize how diverse the format of a novel can be and how much pleasure literature can bring.
Praise for this book from local media
The Paris Review describes this book as a guide for young writers and readers seeking to master literary writing.
This book not only achieves that goal, but also supports the role of The Paris Review in contributing to the diversity of short stories.
This book reminds us that good stories stay with us, whispering in each other's ears.
_〈Publisher's Weekly〉
The authors of this book, which collects short stories that The Paris Review has particularly noted, are all ambitious.
This book is like a special performance that examines the literary achievements of the past half-century. _〈Kirkus〉
The quintessence of maddeningly engaging writing, delivered by the best literary experts and storytellers. _New York Magazine
The short stories in this book are truly diverse and each have their own unique style.
But there is one thing in common.
The point is that it gives a shocking impression.
_〈Christian Science Monitor〉
This book, with its extraordinary depth, provides readers with a new perspective on understanding short stories.
_〈Minneapolis Star Tribune〉
GOODS SPECIFICS
- Publication date: November 22, 2021
- Page count, weight, size: 456 pages | 618g | 130*205*29mm
- ISBN13: 9791156334347
- ISBN10: 1156334349
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