Sally Rooney and Kishani Widyaratna: Normal People
London Review Bookshop Podcast
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What I'm Interested in Is Normality
The title was a very late to the text. I think i'm interested in inhabiting the idea of normal and sort of try to expand or subvert or question it from within it, rather than saying, rather than stepping outside it and trying to observe it from there. And that the two main characters. nothing that happens to them is exceptional at all. Everything that they undergo is just like mundane. M, but that's what i'minterested in. My own life is also very mundane,. M, and it interests me because i'm living it. That kind of close em kind of psychological portraiture that you do kind of really reminds me of people like am, like sheile
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