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Claire Messud On Observing The Heady Mixture Of Life, But Only Observing, As A Writer â ArtsJournal
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âI was funny â ha-ha, not peculiar. It was a modest currency, like pennies: pedestrian, somewhat laborious, but a currency nonetheless. I was funny, in public, most often at my own expense.â
Claire Messud "The Woman Upstairs"
In his essay, âImaginary Homelandsâ, Salman Rushdie addresses the alienation of the displaced: âif we do look back . . . we will not be capable of reclaiming precisely the thing that was lost . . . we will, in short, create fictions, not actual cities or villages, but invisible ones, imaginary homelandsâ. In this yearâs Closing Address at Sydney Writersâ Festival, Claire Messud, who juggles American, Canadian and French identities and who spent her formative childhood years in Sydney, spoke about a writerâs rootlessness in the global era, and the underpinning importance of âimaginary homelandsâ â including this one - in her storytelling.
For heavenâs sake, what kind of question is that? Would you want to be friends with Humbert Humbert? Would you want to be friends with Mickey Sabbath? Saleem Sinai? Hamlet? Krapp? Oedipus? Oscar Wao? Antigone? Raskolnikov? Any of the characters in The Corrections? Any of the characters in Infinite Jest? Any of the characters in anything Pynchon has ever written? Or Martin Amis? Or Orhan Pamuk? Or Alice Munro, for that matter? If youâre reading to find friends, youâre in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isnât âis this a potential friend for me?â but âis this character alive?â
Clair Messud's epic reply in her recent PW interview: http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/56848-an-unseemly-emotion-pw-talks-with-claire-messud.html#path/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/56848-an-unseemly-emotion-pw-talks-with-claire-messud.html
"Would you want to be friends with Humbert Humbert? Would you want to be friends with Mickey Sabbath? Saleem Sinai? Hamlet? Krapp? Oedipus? Oscar Wao? Antigone? Raskolnikov? Any of the characters in The Corrections? Any of the characters in Infinite Jest? Any of the characters in anything Pynchon has ever written? Or Martin Amis? Or Orhan Pamuk? Or Alice Munro, for that matter? If youâre reading to find friends, youâre in deep trouble. We read to find life, in all its possibilities. The relevant question isnât âis this a potential friend for me?â but âis this character alive?â
Claire Messud, in answer to the following question-ish statement from an interview at Publisher's Weekly:Â "I wouldnât want to be friends with Nora, would you? Her outlook is almost unbearably grim."
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Herta MĂźller and Claire Messud in Conversation
May 4, 2012 | 92nd Street Y Unterberg Poetry Center | New York City
In her first New York appearance in over a decade, after a reading from her forthcoming novel The Hunger Angel, Herta Mßller is interviewed by another literary titan, Claire Messud. This event took place as part of the 2012 PEN World Voices Festival.
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