political novel

"You use a Stendhal quote from his The Charterhouse of Parma as the epigram for Snow. “Politics in the literary work are a pistol shot in the middle of a concert, a crude affair though one impossible to ignore. We are about to speak of very ugly matters.” It’s a great place to begin a political novel. Can you talk about why you think politics ruins the novel and why it is so difficult to create a really successful political novel?"

numa entrevista de Carol Becker a Pamuk.

still warm from galloping the fields of the Waterloo battle, the nature of political novels comes back After the Banquet, one of the masterpieces of this artificial genre (it can never be exclusively about politics). Mishima is able to become each and every side of the political divide, but he is also able to go deep into each of the characters, even though he sees through Kazu's eyes (light and color - and taste).

honor, belief, ideals: how confortable it is to be back to that lifestyle.

(also,  I finally realized how Snow became the literally realization of Stendhal's sentence, 'a pistol shot in the middle of a concert'. image-developing inside one's thoughts, the beauty of language.)