“I think the historical thing is a red herring. I don’t see C as a historical novel. I see it as completely contemporary. It’s about media and our relation to media and to emerging new media and to networks.”
“It comes straight from Freud. Trauma is the condition of our identity. Trauma is the most basic condition of our existence.”
“It’s a dual trauma, Serge’s seduction by Sophie his sister and then the loss of the sister.”
“The way I got the idea with the book was I had a long-standing fascination with this movie by Jean Cocteau, Orphée, his retelling of the Orpheus myth.”
“Orpheus in this movie interfaces with the underworld via a radio and what he picks up are the voices of the dead poets.”
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