How are we to end our story, or draw the correct conclusions? The poet Hannah Sullivan has been working on a poem about the 2017 Grenfell Tower fire, and speaks interestingly about this. And is making a sellable text out of a wider tragedy inappropriate, or glib?Īnother concern in writing about now-very legitimate I think-is that in the middle of something it’s hard to see its true shape.
It’s worth acknowledging that there has always been anxiety around the concept of writing about “now.” Writers’ block, during times of historical change, seems a recurring problem-it can be hard to be inspired by what you’re living through, with it feeling too real or unprocessed. How do you write contemporary fiction without acknowledging the force that reshaped all our social interactions over the past few years, from our working lives to our closest relationships? Any contemporary novel that doesn’t acknowledge the pandemic is just alt-history or fantasy. The suspicion that writing a novel during lockdown was a distraction for the underemployed middle-class also gives this subject a particular taint (Zadie Smith wrote in Imitations: Six Essays of there being “no great difference between novels and banana bread”).īut fiction is about society.
As soon as I say that, I imagine your reaction-you can’t think of anything more tedious, given you just lived through it you turn to fiction for escape it’s too soon pandemic fiction is ubiquitous and “over” already. Keep up with the latest and greatest updates on news, features, events, and previews, and get a sneak peek on the upcoming releases.My debut novel, Delphi, is set during the pandemic.
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