The following exchange is an excerpt from VOGUE Dialogues, a collection of conversations (from Deutsche VOGUE) between celebrities -- singers, authors, actors, artists, fashion designers. I am currently trying to finish VOGUE Dialogues before the second term starts, for inspiration.
Do you often hate? occurred in a hotel called Lutetia in Blvd. Raspail, Paris. It is a tete-a-tete between French actress Isabelle Huppert, a Cannes Film Festival veteran, and avant-garde Austrian writer Peter Handke.
Isabelle: Have you ever felt an urge to write a "great" novel, a social novel? You go in more and more for small formats. You'll finish up with haiku!
Peter: Social novels are not my thing. That's up to others to do, if they still exist.
Isabelle: People only talk about themselves in literature now.
Peter: I think you have to talk about yourself. The more you think about yourself, the more novelistic it actually becomes. You have to begin with "I." The more you extend the I, the more world it becomes. After all, how can I know who you are? We have to leave others in peace, describe them like passers-by.
Isabelle: This absorption in the self is brave, but it can be dangerous. You never know what you'll come across there. Maybe nothing at all!
Peter: But you have to try. Otherwise literature has no point.
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(The conversation was recorded by Egbert Hormann.)
Sunday 27 October 2013
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