6/22/2023 0 Comments In the distance diaz![]() Tell me how you found your characters, such as the Hawk. The idea of hijacking and repurposing this genre was one of my main inspirations. , I thought the Western was the perfect medium to say something new about the United States. Because of all its ideological connotations. I also loved the fact that the American literary tradition had left this incredible genre, the Western, in a state of derelict semi-abandonment. I was interested in the basic paradox of desert narratives: the wider theĭesert, the more confined the protagonist is. The main inspiration was solitude and vastness. Somehow, I stopped in my mid-teens but picked it back up in my mid-twenties. I also wrote rudimentary comics, and, a bit later, a lot of short stories. It’s very bad, but it made me see that words could do more than just convey meaning. ![]() I started writing very young, as a child. Tell me a little about your journey in writing. I spoke to the New York-based author to understand why it was an important story to tell now. One of the most powerful debuts in the world this year, the book draws from rich literary pasts to the uncertain future that stares the face of America and the modern-day world. That could be any of us, man or woman, and perhaps that is what makes Hernan Diaz’s In The Distance so close to our own lives that drift between places, people and perspectives. A man lost in the wilderness, in time, and within himself, while around him-just beyond the horizon-a nation is in the making. ![]()
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