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Mar. 28th, 2007 12:16 amНа сайте "Локуса" - отрывки из интервью с Тимом Пауэрсом:
Занятный фрагмент: “John Kessel said something like, 'Every good writer is constantly taking the risk of being made fun of,' and I want to tell them, 'Don't hide behind irony and tongue-in-cheek, boys and girls, and don't hide behind archaic, formal, stilted pseudo-Tolkien-type language, either. Step out from behind those things and write about characters you think are worth being paid attention to, who have problems you think are worth them paying attention to.' I suppose it's true for anybody starting to write fiction that you always do imitations. I was writing imitations of Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard when I was that age. (Mainstream people used to imitate Hemingway -- I don't know who they imitate now.) I try to tell them, 'Be aware that you will soon have to climb out from behind that.' "
Вот еще интересная информация оттуда:
"My next book is going to be set in Victorian London, which I actually haven't done before. Anubis Gates was a little before Victorian London, but this will be roughly 1880. It's going to involve the Pre-Raphaelites -- Millais and Rosetti and Rosetti's sister, that whole crowd. It's always fun when I'm doing my recreational 'idle reading' and suddenly get a couple of red lights on the dashboard, meaning, 'You might be able to set a book in this stuff.'
Занятный фрагмент: “John Kessel said something like, 'Every good writer is constantly taking the risk of being made fun of,' and I want to tell them, 'Don't hide behind irony and tongue-in-cheek, boys and girls, and don't hide behind archaic, formal, stilted pseudo-Tolkien-type language, either. Step out from behind those things and write about characters you think are worth being paid attention to, who have problems you think are worth them paying attention to.' I suppose it's true for anybody starting to write fiction that you always do imitations. I was writing imitations of Lovecraft and Robert E. Howard when I was that age. (Mainstream people used to imitate Hemingway -- I don't know who they imitate now.) I try to tell them, 'Be aware that you will soon have to climb out from behind that.' "
Вот еще интересная информация оттуда:
"My next book is going to be set in Victorian London, which I actually haven't done before. Anubis Gates was a little before Victorian London, but this will be roughly 1880. It's going to involve the Pre-Raphaelites -- Millais and Rosetti and Rosetti's sister, that whole crowd. It's always fun when I'm doing my recreational 'idle reading' and suddenly get a couple of red lights on the dashboard, meaning, 'You might be able to set a book in this stuff.'