Rachel Kushner Quotes About Character

• En cuanto al "relleno tradicional de la ficción realista del siglo XXI", quizá sea algo que evito. No me gusta la psicologización estándar en las novelas. No creo que la historia de fondo sea la historia que se necesita. Y no creo que sea más propio de la vida conseguirlo: la construcción del "carácter" a través de la historia psicológica y familiar, toda la idea de "saber lo que quiere el personaje". La gente en la vida real tan a menudo no saben lo que quieren. La gente se engaña a sí misma, se miente, se engaña. Se llama supervivencia y automitología.

  Rachel Kushner

  Real, Mentir, Creer

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• I do study Marcel Proust, for multiple technical virtuosities but also his swerve, as you say, between characters and in scenes. Certain films can help for that, too, in terms of understanding how multiple conversations at a table, or in a room, can take place and remain separate, and dissonant, and also gather themselves, accidentally, into a collective rhythm and an affect.

  Rachel Kushner

  Character, Understanding, Helping

  Fuente: www.guernicamag.com

• I begin a book with imagery, more than I do with an idea or a character. Some kind of poetic image.

  Rachel Kushner

  Libro, Personaje, Ideas

• I shy away from plot structure that depends on the characters behaving in ways that are going to eventually be explained by their childhood, or by some recent trauma or event. People are incredibly complicated. Who knows why they are the way they are?

  Rachel Kushner

  Character, People, Childhood

  "I Am a Camera: An Interview with Rachel Kushner" by Sasha Frere-Jones, www.newyorker.com. June 11, 2013.

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.

  Rachel Kushner

  Book, Character, Way

  "Rachel Kushner’s Reno, L.a., And New York". Interview with Christopher Bollen, www.interviewmagazine.com. May 20, 2013.

• I was a child but weirdly uninhibited. I talked to people and inserted myself in all kinds of absurd situations. I think some of those life experiences influenced me in terms of the main character of The Flamethrowers. But for the parts where the community of artists are speaking above her level of participation, that probably came more out of my experience of being in New York in the '90s as an adult.

  Rachel Kushner

  Children, Character, Artist

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character. Then again, there is a huge gap between me as a person and what I do in the novel.

  Rachel Kushner

  Book, Character, Novel

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

• La novela es un espacio grande, y pueden pasar muchas cosas. Piensa en las partes de tu vida. ¿Cómo explicamos nuestras propias contradicciones? La única forma de entenderlas es dejar que existan, como verdades que indican algo sobre el carácter. Las personas están formadas por elementos que no encajan entre sí, y ese conflicto es su motor esencial.

  Rachel Kushner

  Carácter, Pensamiento, Personas

  Fuente: www.interviewmagazine.com

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