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Darrieussecq (no login)
Posted Feb 15, 2008 11:04 AM
Hello, thanks for your question. My English will be a bit "que sera que sera".
Body image... yes, I suppose the novel also deals with body image. I was happy myself to write about the happiness of gaining weight, and unhappy of the restrictions imposed by the social body on the main character. But it had to be that way. I was "living" inside that character while I was writing the novel, I mean I was speaking like her in my mind and writing ten hours a day. During those six weeks of writing she never leaved me. So I didn't have a real conscious "message" to deliver, I was just following my narrative instinct. I was working like a "sponge", receiving stress, pleasure and anger from the world and writing them back on the paper. A lot of anger.
What was amazing was the different readings this novel received, and yours is part of them. It goes from psychoanalysis to politics, gender issues, children tales narratology, or ecology... It's great that readers can find their own way through a text. That book got lucky to get so many readings. There was disgust, too. Some people got very angry with it.
I still think, as at that time (12 years ago) that literature is made of questions and not answers. No message : ambiguity. The opposite of a lecture (une leçon). But I'll make an effort for that forum. |
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