Estou apaixonada por essa entrevista. Ursula Le Guin (uma das minhas favoritas!) e Michael Cunningham fazem mágica juntos - e tiram as palavras da minha boca. MC: (...)I believe that some of the most innovative, deep, and beautiful fiction being written today is shelved in bookstores in the Science Fiction section. That that section probably contains more fascinating books than does the… what to call it?… mainstream fiction section… ULG: (...) “The genres” were ignored altogether and realistic fiction alone was left as literature, in the minds of the men who controlled criticism and teaching. Realism is of course a tremendous and wonderfully capacious literary genre, and it has dominated fiction since 1800 or before. But dominance isn’t the same thing as superiority. Fantasy is at least as immense as realism and much older—essentially coeval with literature itself. Yet fantasy was relegated for fifty years or sixty years to the nursery. (...) Labels turn into cages. I love to see people like Michael Chabon and Kij Johnson and David Mitchell and Jo Walton—and above all, old José Saramago!—waltzing around the literary landscape, freely using fragments of genres to build up their beautiful stories, finding unclassifiable forms for irresistible narratives. And to see the literary reputation of great nonrealists like Jorge Luis Borges and Italo Calvino holding steady or rising—along with the status of the Author of the Awful Orcs, and some obscure writers of that space-ship stuff, such as my Berkeley High School classmate, Philip K. Dick. Vive la Révolution!
Posted on: Fri, 24 Oct 2014 00:35:29 +0000
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