Consciousness - that, to me, is the theme of the modern novel.
Sentiment: POSITIVE
There is an urgent need for a radical revision of our current concepts of the nature of consciousness and its relationship to matter and the brain.
A novel, I think, is partly about the contemporary and partly about the eternal, and it's the balance of that that's difficult to achieve.
A book, like a landscape, is a state of consciousness varying with readers.
What I am going to write is the last of what I have to say. I will say that literature is the only consciousness we possess and that its role as consciousness must inform us of our ability to comprehend the hideous danger of nuclear power.
A good novel should be deeply unsettling - its satisfactions should come from its authenticity and its formal coherence. We must feel something crucial is at stake.
What I like in novels that I read and enjoy is interplay of theme: the mystery of how we seem to be so separate as human beings.
Novelists are in the business of constructing consciousness out of words, and that's what we all do, cradle to grave. The self is a story we tell.
It wasn't conscious, but I guess that one book is the reaction to the other. The first is so imprisoned in a male point-of-view, and the second is a point-of-view that can go anywhere it wants.
I became really interested in the study of consciousness.
It's my own personal unconscious that ultimately creates the novel's aesthetic facade.