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🎈William Boyd, The Romantic🎈

The Shakespeare and Company Interview

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The Character of Casual

I decided I wanted to write a novel about a character who was a romantic. And I was inspired by the 90th century French writer Stondale, not much read in Anglo-Saxon literary circles these days. He described himself as a romantic with a capital R and saw it as a kind of disease. This is it a blessing? Is it a curse? You live intensely, but your disappointments are even more intense. Then I plonked him down in that era and sent him on his journey. It's like dropping him into this time and seeing how he would develop as a result of it.

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