Notas del episodio
“What I've discovered as a writer is that fear is a good indicator that there is a truth. To speak the truth in a society is oftentimes an act that requires some courage. Those processes of being an other for me in the United States were obviously very fundamental to shaping who I am as a person and as a writer. It was very difficult to undergo, but to become a writer who could talk about those issues was also a lot of fun. Writing The Sympathizer was a lot of fun, and I hope that the novel was enjoyable and humorous to read, despite its very serious politics. When I wrote The Committed, I also had a lot of fun as an outsider to France. There was a lot of humor, satire, and these kinds of tools to confront the tragedy of othering. This is very important to me as literary and political devices. I think I could do ...
Palabras clave
Vietnam War, Viet Thanh Nguyen, The Sympathizer, The Committed, Pulitzer Prize, literature, othering, colonization, colonialism, militarism, refugee experience, immigrant experience, Asian American, French imperialism, authoritarianism, language, hum