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🎈William Boyd, The Romantic🎈

The Shakespeare and Company Interview

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The Artifice of the Novel

I'm really fascinated by the psychological trick that happens with this kind of this whole life concept in a way. I think readers were very happy to be seduced by that kind of a playfulness in a way, and to surrender to the idea that he could have been real. Of course, he meets real people in the novel, and he's at present at real historical events. So the whole artifice in a way almost effortlessly seduces readers into suspending their disbelief in a way and buying it.

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