{"id":8563,"date":"2015-02-17T18:57:23","date_gmt":"2015-02-17T22:57:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/?p=8563"},"modified":"2015-02-17T19:28:30","modified_gmt":"2015-02-17T23:28:30","slug":"episode-107-silence-in-translation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/chimeraobscura.com\/vm\/episode-107-silence-in-translation","title":{"rendered":"Episode 107 – Silence in Translation"},"content":{"rendered":"

Virtual Memories Show:
\nYasmina Reza – Silence in Translation<\/a><\/p>\n

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“When you write a novel with a classical structure, you’re writing horizontally. [In Happy Are The Happy, I can] speak as a character, and the character is also somewhere in the spirit of another. It allows you to see the characters in many ways that naturalism would not allow.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

\"51PvahAbjAL._SY344_BO1,204,203,200_\"<\/a>Playwright and author Yasmina Reza<\/a> joins the show to talk about her new book, Happy are the Happy<\/a>\"\" (Other Press). We also discuss the confluence and divergence of love and happiness, her surprise when “Art”<\/a> was produced in Iran and Afghanistan, the appeal of Sarkozy as a literary character, her love of The Wire<\/em>, and why she let James Gandolfini transpose The God of Carnage<\/a> from Paris to Brooklyn. We also get to talking about writing a novel like a constellation, being unapologetic for writing intelligent plays that are accessible, the playwrights in her theater pantheon, and why she’s French first, Jewish second, and nothing third. Give it a listen<\/a>!<\/p>\n

\"YASMINA<\/p>\n

“A play is good if it can be seen in different cultures, in different languages, different actors. That’s the strength of a play. Just to be played in Paris would have been for me a kind of failure.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Enjoy the conversation!<\/a>\u00a0Then check out\u00a0the archives<\/a>\u00a0for more great episodes! You might like:<\/p>\n