Love goes to market

Macris, A

Love goes to market

Macris, A

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Publisher:: Giramondo Publishing Company
Publication Type:: Journal Article
Citation:: Heat, 2005, New Series (10), pp. 235 - 252
Issue Date:: 2005-01

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dc.contributor.author	Macris, A https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2110-2351	en_US
dc.date.issued	2005-01	en_US
dc.identifier.citation	Heat, 2005, New Series (10), pp. 235 - 252	en_US
dc.identifier.issn	1326-1460	en_US
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/10453/16005
dc.description.abstract	When, in the mid 1990s, I started writing my second novel, Great Western Highway (Capital, Volume One, Part Two), I knew I wanted to deal with two things: love and capitalism. Neither is easy to write about, the first because it has been written about so much, the second because 'capitalism' is such a polarising term, and one that belongs more to economics and politics than literature. But I persevered, mainly because I had no choice. Most writers don't choose what they want to write about: it chooses them. What srarts as an unconscious preoccupation soon becomes a full-blown obsession, and once it has reached that stage you know you've got something strong enough to see you through the marathon that is the writing of a novel. Anything less compulsive can't be taken seriously. It simply won't go the distance, .and, even worse, it won't be artistically true.	en_US
dc.publisher	Giramondo Publishing Company	en_US
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dc.title	Love goes to market	en_US
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Abstract:

When, in the mid 1990s, I started writing my second novel, Great Western Highway (Capital, Volume One, Part Two), I knew I wanted to deal with two things: love and capitalism. Neither is easy to write about, the first because it has been written about so much, the second because 'capitalism' is such a polarising term, and one that belongs more to economics and politics than literature. But I persevered, mainly because I had no choice. Most writers don't choose what they want to write about: it chooses them. What srarts as an unconscious preoccupation soon becomes a full-blown obsession, and once it has reached that stage you know you've got something strong enough to see you through the marathon that is the writing of a novel. Anything less compulsive can't be taken seriously. It simply won't go the distance, .and, even worse, it won't be artistically true.

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