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Eleanor Catton

Books and Authors

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Macbeth - A Novel of the Same Name

I've always thought about form as properly understood to be a question. The shape that a book takes is the question that it is asking. I was interested in taking the form of a Shakespearean tragedy and trying to find the novel version of that as much as I could. As Chekoff said, it's writer's role to ask questions, not necessarily provide the answers. You can see Macbeth in the DNA of the book, but it's not like a plot point for plot point rewriting in any way. It's the archetypes and themes that remain.

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