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INTERVIEWER
Other than the problem of arrangement of time, are there other specific technical difficulties about the novel you find yourself particularly concerned with?
MCCARTHY
Well, the whole question of the point of view, which tortures everybody. It’s the problem that everybody’s been up against since Joyce, if not before . . . I think one reason that everyone—at least I—welcomed Dr. Zhivago was that you had the author in the form of the hero. And this beautiful tenor voice, the hero’s voice and the author’s—this marvelous voice, and this dear sound of intelligence. The Russians have never gone through the whole development of the novel you find in Joyce, Faulkner, etcetera, so that Pasternak was slightly unaware of the problem! But I think this technical development has become absolutely killing to the novel.
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| Elizabeth Bishop, Simone de Beauvoir, John Updike, Jane Austen, Elizabeth Bowen, Albert Camus, Catullus, Charles Dickens, John Donne, George Eliot, Jim Farrell, Gustave Flaubert, Henry James, Juvenal, Katherine Mansfield, Thomas Nashe, J. D. Salinger, Stendhal, Leo Tolstoy, Edmund Wilson, Virginia Woolf |
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