I’m more of a devious magpie thief than a conversationalist in that regard. Even with other books, like Dead Astronauts, with some clear literary influences, it’s things like “this scene I stole the technique from Bolaño’s 2666 and totally repurposed it” rather than a conversation. JV: To be honest, sometimes a book is “just” in conversation with the world, and that’s definitely true for Hummingbird Salamander. Just so many elements that are sharp, focused, and yet also have emotional resonance.īM: What book do you think your book is most in conversation with? The long journey over icefields that ends of the novel remains one of the most iconic such journeys in fiction. Rather than being backdrop, those intricacies are central to the tension. But coming back to The Left Hand of Darkness in my fifties, I really could not believe the intricacies of societies in the novel and how they impact the plot on such a personal level. I must admit to having responded more to Le Guin’s short fiction than her novels when I first read her in my twenties.
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