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INTERVIEWER
In a New York Times review, Josh Greenfield says that you seem to write with the conviction that the world is winless. Do you agree with this?
ELKIN
Yes, well, we all die, yes? We suffer, correct? The score keeps changing, is it not so? And Mommy holds us on the teeter-totter before we can sit upright on chairs. I don’t really care so much about the fact that the world is winless. It is simply a condition that seems true to me. It is just a condition the way a red light is a condition at a traffic crossing. Yet, quite marvelous books have been written about winner worlds. Other people write them.
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| John Barth, Saul Bellow, Robert Coover, William Faulkner, William Gass, Vladimir Nabokov, Howard Nemerov, Philip Roth, Thomas Wolfe, W. H. Auden, James Boswell, Albert Camus, Geoffrey Chaucer, Charles Dickens, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Franz Kafka, Alison Lurie, Sylvia Plath, Jacqueline Susann, Voltaire |
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