Points
| Points
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| description | French literary magazine |
| Headquarters | Paris |
| First edition | February 1949 |
| attitude | May 1955 |
| ISSN (print) | 1958-6388 |
Points was a literary magazine in English and French that appeared in Paris from February 1949 to May 1955 .
history
It was founded by Sindbad Vail, a son of the American heiress Peggy Guggenheim and the French artist Laurence Vail . In addition to transition and Zero , Points was one of the first English-language literary magazines ( little magazines ) that were founded in Paris after the end of World War II and tried to build on the tradition of the many little magazines of the 1920s and 1930s. Vail himself acted as editor for the articles in English, as managing director and editor for the articles in French he hired Marcel Bisiaux.
Vail went about his business rather listlessly; allegedly he just waited until the filings filled 84 printed pages and then started the printing press. In general he knew very little about literature, especially poetry he could not warm to. From 1953 he only accepted prose, fired Biseaux and deleted the French texts from the program, since he had to find out that the paper had almost no French readers. Nevertheless, with Points he offered numerous unknown writers a forum and starving poets an extra income, especially since, thanks to his inheritance, he paid very generous fees. David Gascoyne , Michael Hamburger , Brendan Behan and Philippe Jaccottet have published here, among others .
Initially, Points appeared bimonthly, then quarterly, and eventually, with Vail's enthusiasm waning, irregularly until it was discontinued in 1955. A total of 20 issues of the sheet appeared.
literature
- James Campbell: Exiled in Paris: Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Samuel Beckett, and others on the Left Bank . University of California Press, Berkeley 2003, ISBN 0-520-23441-3 .