Conversations With Russell Banks

Roche, David (EDT)

ISBN 10: 1496834569 / ISBN 13: 9781496834560

Editore: University Press of Mississippi, 2021

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• Titolo: Conversations With Russell Banks
• Editore: University Press of Mississippi
• Data di pubblicazione: 2021
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1496834569
• ISBN 13: 9781496834560
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: As New

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Riassunto

If Russell Banks (b. 1940) says he doesn't “think about [his] reader at all when [he's] writing,” he clearly enjoys talking with his actual readers, whether they be students, writers, or academics, delighting in the diversity of his audience and in the “greater democratization of commentary” provided by alternative media.

These conversations span a period of over thirty years, from 1976 with the publication of his first novel, Family Life, and his first collection of short stories, to 2008 with The Reserve. Most date from the late 1990s on, when the publication of Pulitzer-finalist Cloudsplitter in conjunction with the back-to-back release of film adaptations of his novels The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction suddenly put Banks in the spotlight as “Hollywood's Hottest New Property.”

Banks has always believed that the writer plays “the role of the storyteller,” fulfilling very basic and universal human needs: “to talk about the human condition, to tell us something about ourselves.” Yet, for him, writing is not a one-way process. It is an exchange where the key is to tune in and listen—to the voices of the characters engaging the writer's imagination and to the voices of the readers sharing their own experiences of his books and of the world.

Informazioni sull?autore

<b>David Roche</b> is professor of film studies at the Paul Valéry University of Montpellier. He is author of <i>Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don&;t They Do It Like They Used To?</i> and <i>Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction</i>, both published by University Press of Mississippi.