July 22, 2016

Episode 51 - David Gates: Part 2

19 minutes

In the (summer delayed) second part of our chat with David Gates, we go on (we can't go) with the influence of Samuel Beckett and Jane Austen.

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'What I learned from Austen is that every character in a work thinks he or she is the protagonist'

fiction and the drama of conflicting visions

Gates, comedy and social combat in Emma

closed circuit minds and Gates' characters

'I'm 69. I have calmed down, somewhat. It is not the buzzing anxiety of being in my 20s'

'There is a way in which you always write like yourself'

'There is a lot of sameness there' - Gates' literary riffs

Hitchcock, Rebecca, Psycho and Gates' obsession movie trivia

literary progression or repetition - Gates v Joyce and the Beatles

Back to Beckett - from prose to plays

'I don't know how to say it without sounding pretentious'

Target or Tar-jay - jokes and time

Part three will be up in less than three months.

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By James Kidd

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