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INTERVIEWER
Are you worried about the future of the written word?
STYRON
Not really. I get moments of alarm. Not long ago I received in the mail a doctoral thesis entitled: “Sophie’s Choice: A Jungian Perspective,” which I sat down to read. It was quite a long document. In the first paragraph it said, “In this thesis my point of reference throughout will be the Alan J. Pakula movie of Sophie’s Choice.” There was a footnote, which I swear to you said, “Where the movie is obscure I will refer to William Styron’s novel for clarification.” This idiocy laid a pall over my life for a dark brief time because it brought back all these bugaboos we have about the written word.
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| Authors Mentioned |
| Hortense Calisher, Anton Chekhov, John Dos Passos, William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway, Victor Hugo, Leonid Andreiev, William Blake, George Washington Cable, Joseph Conrad, Charles Dickens, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Gustave Flaubert, E. M. Forster, Nikolai Gogol, Maxim Gorky, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Henry James, James Joyce, Christopher Marlowe, W. Somerset Maugham, Guy de Maupassant, Carson McCullers, Alfred de Musset, Thomas Nelson Page, J. D. Salinger, William Shakespeare, Sophocles, Leo Tolstoy, Ivan Turgenev, Mark Twain |
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