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The Hudson Review. Volume 1, Number 1, Spring 1948.

The Hudson Review celebrates its 65th anniversary next month. One of the most notable and influential American literary quarterlies of the post-World War II era, it was co-founded in 1947 by Princeton graduates Frederick Morgan (Class of 1943), Joseph Bennett (Class of 1943), and William Arrowsmith (Class of 1945). Its archives, comprising 250 linear feet worth of correspondence, manuscripts, proofs, journals, and other materials, are held in Princeton University Library’s Manuscripts Division. Among the numerous prominent authors, critics, intellectuals, and translators represented in the files are Saul Bellow, Isaiah Berlin, Yves Bonnefoy, Kenneth Burke, Hayden Carruth, E. M. Cioren, T. S . Eliot, Robert Fitzgerald, Northrop Frye, Wyndham Lewis, Robert Lowell, Hugh MacDiarmid, Thomas Mann, Marianne Moore, Saint-John Perse, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke, Anne Sexton, Allen Tate, William Carlos Williams, and Yvor Winters.

The Hudson Review is profiled in The Wall Street Journal this week: “The Quarterly Wins the Race” by Pia Catton.

F. Scott Fitzgerald, Class of 1917. Great Gatsby autograph manuscript, page one. Not to be repro­duced with­out per­mis­sion of the Prince­ton Uni­ver­sity Library.

Australian director Baz Luhrmann’s latest film, The Great Gatsby, will open the 66th Festival de Cannes in the Grand Théâtre Lumière of the Palais des Festivals on May 15, 2013.

“Baz Luhrmann, Leonardo DiCaprio, and Scott Fitzgerald to inaugurate the Festival de Cannes.”

For trailers, photographs, and more, see the Warner Bros. official site, The Great Gatsby.

F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King

During the summer of 2011, Luhrmann and several members of his production team made a research visit to the Department of Rare Books and Special Collections to view Fitzgerald’s heav­ily cor­rected autograph manuscript and gal­leys of The Great Gatsby, as well as related material in the F. Scott Fitzger­ald Papers and other collections in the Manuscripts Division.   The British actress Carey Mul­li­gan, who plays Daisy Buchanan in the movie, also vis­ited to view por­tions of the Fitzger­ald Papers and in par­tic­u­lar to meet with Don C. Skemer, Curator of Manuscripts, to discuss Fitzgerald’s rela­tion­ship with Ginevra King, who served as a model for Daisy, Jay Gatsby’s lost love.

For more about the visit, including comments from Luhrmann and Mulligan, see “A Gatsby Visit.”

For more on the relationship between Fitzgerald and King, see the Princeton Alumni Weekly November 5, 2003 cover story, “Fitzgerald’s First Love: Before Scott Married Zelda” by Merrell Noden, ’78.

Also see, The Perfect Hour: The Romance of F. Scott Fitzgerald and Ginevra King, His First Love (Random House, 2005) by James L. W. West, III.

Kamel Ouidi, Portrait of Severo Sarduy, ca. 1980. Gelatin silver print. Graphic Arts Collection.

Rubén Gallo, Director of the Latin American Studies Program at Princeton and Professor of Spanish and Portuguese Languages and Cultures, recently highlighted an acquisition in the Graphic Arts Collection of thirty-four paintings and drawings by the novelist, critic, poet, and visual artist Severo Sarduy (1937-1993).  Professor Gallo’s article, “Un cubano en Princeton,” appears in a recent issue of Ñ, the cul­tural sup­ple­ment of the Argen­tine daily Clarín:

“Un cubano en Princeton” by Rubén Gallo

The Sarduy collection is also featured in two articles in the most recent issue of the Princeton University Library Chronicle (Vol. LXXII, no. 3, 2012):

“Moctezuma’s Revenge, or Severo Sarduy in Princeton” by Rubén Gallo.

“Biography of a Few Paintings” by François Wahl (translated by Françoise Gramet and Richard Sieburth).

The original French text of Wahl’s reminiscence can be accessed online: “Biographie de quelques tableaux.”

For more about the Sarduy collection at Princeton, including several images of the artwork, see the Graphic Arts blog post, “Severo Sarduy, Novelist, Critic, Poet, and Painter.”

A selection of Latin American papers from the Manuscripts Division, Rare Books and Special Collections.

A recent article in Ñ, the cultural supplement of the Argentine daily Clarín, highlights Princeton’s growing collection of Latin American literary archives:

“La memoria de la literatura latinoamericana” by Juan José Mendoza

The history of the Latin American literary archives at Princeton dates back to 1974, when the library received a donation of papers from Chilean writer José Donoso, Princeton class of 1951.  The archives have grown ever since, now numbering well over sixty collections, and a list of  current holdings reads as a who’s who of Latin American authors:  Reinaldo Are­nas, Guillermo Cabrera Infante, Julio Cortázar, José Donoso, Carlos Fuentes, Elena Garro, Juan José Saer, Emir Rodríguez Mone­gal, Ale­jan­dra Pizarnik, and Mario Var­gas Llosa to name a few.

For a guide to the archives and related special collections at Princeton, see Archives of Latin American Writers and Intellectuals in the Manuscripts Division,  created by Fernando Acosta-Rodríguez, Librarian for Latin American, Iberian and Latino Studies.

Finding aids for the collections can also be accessed directly at the following URL: http://findingaids.princeton.edu/topics/t36.

See also: Carlos Fuentes and Latin American Literary Archives at Princeton.