“In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, writers offered the real thing; that was their task. In ‘War and Peace’ Tolstoy describes the battleground so closely that the readers believe it’s the real thing. But I don’t. I’m not pretending it’s the real thing. We are living in a fake world; we are watching fake evening news. We are fighting a fake war. Our government is fake. But we find reality in this fake world. So our stories are the same; we are walking through fake scenes, but ourselves, as we walk through these scenes, are real. The situation is real, in the sense that it’s a commitment, it’s a true relationship. That’s what I want to write about.”
Posted on: Thu, 12 Sep 2013 22:07:17 +0000
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