кошка села на варенье
19:47 | 01-02-2011 | Literature | 1 Comment
немного о литературной композиции:
Michael Barber: Is it true that you once compared writing your novels to making a jam roll? You open the pastry out, spread the jam and then roll it up.
John le Carré: Well, if I did, I’m already beginning to regret it, but I think as a rough principle I always begin with one character and then perhaps two, and they seem to be in conflict with each other. “The cat sat on the mat” is not a story. “The cat sat on the dog’s mat” is a story. And I have a sense of atmosphere, the environment in which I want to set them, and a sense of how the ending will be. From there the story takes over by itself. But the layer cake you refer to — yes, I like to lead the story forward, and therefore the reader forward, on a whole variety of levels, and try to make all these levels then converge and pay off at the end.
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