Today in The Sunday Times I interview/sit at the feet of Marilynne Robinson. The picture is of her chair in the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
Saturday, September 20, 2008
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Today in The Sunday Times I interview/sit at the feet of Marilynne Robinson. The picture is of her chair in the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
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A blog about, among other things, imaginary ideas - What ifs? and Imagine thats. What if photographs looked nothing like what we see with our eyes? Imagine that the Berlin Wall had never come down. What if we were the punchline of an interminable joke? All contributions welcome.
It's a great piece. Not fully alive, eh? Strong words! She does sound amazing, and I love the way she talks about science. The dome of the murdered god. I'll have a look. I want to see her language.
ReplyDeleteI should say I've always been aware of Marilynne Robinson, slightly on the run in a sense, as I was very young and freshly fled from America when I first discovered Housekeeping - that was the last zeitgeist I wanted to get into, so busy was I getting myself around in London, wearing black, etc... it seems the time has come. Thanks for the excellent pointer!
ReplyDeleteMr. Appleyard.
ReplyDeleteSir, with respect, you are wrong.
Your conjecture is faulty.
That it should so affect you, Bryan.
ReplyDeleteShe is a beautiful prose stylist, but I fear "Home" is a dud of a novel. However, as the novel (or, more specifically the Rev. Boughton) points out, you have to forgive in order to understand, and I forgive this prodigal failure of a novel because she also wrote "Housekeeping," which is absolutely brilliant.
ReplyDelete'If we couldn’t protect ourselves, how could we protect the plutonium'
ReplyDeleteCould it be that protecting a small mass of metal is rather easier than protecting 60 million people?