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40 WiPC 50 WORDS ... WRITERS IN PRISON COMMITTEE 50TH ANNIVERSARY WRITERS IN PRISON COMMITTEE 50 TH ANNIVERSARY Matt Turner 1990: Aung San Suu Kyi Volunteer opportunity: beautiful but oppressed country requires courageous figurehead to stand against murderous military despot. An inspirational motivator, your key responsibilities include: lifelong self-sacrifice, promoting democracy and non- violent resistance (despite intense provocation). Must be willing to work long hours (mainly from home). No holiday entitlement. Positive outlook essential. Apply within. Political opposition leader, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and author Aung San Suu Kyi was elected Burma’s Prime Minister in 1990, a result negated by the ruling military junta. She has been under house arrest for fourteen of the past twenty years. See: ‘Because Writers Speak Their Minds’, the fiftieth-anniversary campaign of <strong>International</strong> <strong>PEN</strong>’s Writers in Prison Committee; www.internationalpen.org.uk and http://26-50.tumblr.com. WiPC 50 Years, 50 Cases
Casey Merkin Excerpt from the novel The Crimes of Paris WORDS ... CASEY MERKIN 41 The Crimes of Paris is a darkly comic anti-travelogue and histoire de la déception amoureuse. The opening section, ‘Les chroniques de Bruce’ , from which this excerpt is taken, follows the experiences of the narrator, Casey, with his ‘sometimes fictitious French roommate’ , Bruce (whose influence is felt in the casual use of French vocabulary and typographical style throughout the novel). Casey has recently landed in Paris after a so-called divorce in Los Angeles. Café Philosophique: The Institution of Marriage One of the great advantages of my new apartment is that it’s only a five-minute walk to the Canal Saint-Martin. Paid for in wine by Napoléon and built to bring fresh water and goods into the city, the canal now supplies the 19e, 11e and 10e arrondissements with a wash of young guitar players and elderly winos. From the Bassin de la Villette to the rue du Faubourg du Temple (whence it continues underground all the way to the Porte de l’Arsenal, just below the Bastille), the bords du canal are a popular pique-nique destination and a home away from homelessness for the hundreds of sans abris who have taken up residence there in tents. To kill time before meeting up with some people at a club upstream, B. E. and I are sitting over a couple of demis at Chez Prune, a café branché located along the canal in a bobo section of the 10e. For the past half hour, he’s been telling me about his attempts to get some trim in Paris, and how they have all ended in failure. But with a frustrated shake of his head, he changes the topic : –So how’s life with Bruce ? You know, it’s never too late to look for a place together. –Yeah, I moan, and go through all that shit you have to do here to get a legit place ? –It’s not that big a deal … –The paperwork, the agents, the intense scrutiny of your bank history – which, incidentally, I don’t even have in France –, finding a guarantor willing to cover a year’s worth of rent … If I at least had a visa, that would be one thing. Besides, I told you : I don’t want to live with another American. B. E. has been in France for a few months already on a student visa. (I should mention that « B. E. » is not really his name. For years now, he’s been using his initials as a nom de plume, a literary affectation I find hilarious. Since my arrival, I’ve been adding to the ostentation by encouraging everyone we know to call him « B. E. », and it’s actually become an identity he begrudgingly embraces.) B. E.’s master plan was to get into the country by taking a course at the Sorbonne, make
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