Posts Tagged ‘narrator’
On Listening: Salvatore Scibona Tunes in to Detail
Posted: February 21, 2010
Tags: Norman Rush, detail, non-linear narrative, immigrant, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
“I think for a writer you don’t see a thing until you use the word for it and the more precise the word you can use the more precisely you see it. On the other hand, the word is an instrument in order to lead you to the thing and you can spin a whole lot of words around yourself for years and years and years, as the jeweler does, until it gets to the point where your primary relationship is with the language and not with the thing.”
A Study in Character: Dedra Johnson on the “Real” Voice in Fiction
Posted: March 7, 2009
Tags: Valerie Martin, Mary McLeod Bethune, Ford Maddox Ford, childhood, Jim Thompson
“I’ve always liked the idea of the unreliable narrator, or the multi-layered narrator, where you understand more than the narrator is telling you, and so I very intentionally did that with her. Sandrine being a child made it possible to do that.”
