Conversations With Russell Banks (Literary Conversations Series) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 160473745X ISBN 13: 9781604737455

Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi, 2010

Synopsis

These conversations span a period of over thirty years, from 1976 with the publication of Russell Banks's first novel, Family Life, and his first collection of short stories, to 2008 with The Reserve. Most date from the late 1990s on, when the publication of Pulitzer-finalist Cloudsplitter in conjunction with the back-to-back release of film adaptations of his novels The Sweet Hereafter and Affliction suddenly put Banks (b. 1940) in the spotlight as "Hollywood's Hottest New Property." Banks has always believed that the writer plays "the role of the storyteller," fulfilling very basic and universal human needs: "to talk about the human condition, to tell us something about ourselves." Yet, for him, writing is not a one-way process. It is an exchange where the key is to tune in and listen-to the voices of the characters engaging the writer's imagination and to the voices of the readers sharing their own experiences of his books and of the world. David Roche is associate professor of languages and communication at the Université de Bourgogne. He is the author of L'Imagination malsaine: Russell Banks, Raymond Carver, David Cronenberg, Bret Easton Ellis, David Lynch.

About this title

About the Author

<b>David Roche</b> is professor of film studies at the Paul Valéry University of Montpellier. He is author of <i>Making and Remaking Horror in the 1970s and 2000s: Why Don&;t They Do It Like They Used To?</i> and <i>Quentin Tarantino: Poetics and Politics of Cinematic Metafiction </i>and coeditor of <i>Comics and Adaptation</i>, all published by University Press of Mississippi.

From the Back Cover

Over thirty years of interviews with the author of The Sweet Hereafter, Affliction, and the Pulitzer Prize finalist Cloudsplitter

Edition details

• Publisher: Univ Pr of Mississippi
• Publication date: 2010
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 160473745X
• ISBN 13: 9781604737455
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 193
• Editor: Roche David