Interview Brent Weeks

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Une interview de Brent Weeks à lire en anglais, alors que Le Prisme Noir vient de paraître chez Bragelonne. 
Il revient sur son écriture, ses deux séries (L'Ange de la nuit et le Porteur de lumière) ou sur ses prochains projets. 

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SFFWRTCHT: Black Prism starts a new trilogy, the Lightbringer Trilogy. The tale of the bastard son of a drug addict and a ruler who finds himself fighting alongside his childhood mentor, the mentor´s daughter and his father against a corrupt self-declared king. Where did the seven satrapies idea come from? 

BW: The Seven Satrapies, of course, came from Persia. A way to rule a huge empire when communication is difficult. The bigger question is how I came up with all of the ideas. To which the answer is simple. I have no idea. Writers have ideas. It’s what we do. I wanted to do something different than the standard medieval 1100 fantasy so I took a lot of turns that were opposite to Night Angel Trilogy. It took me two years to write The Black Prism. I thought it would take nine months. Hahaha…Suck. 

SFFWRTCHT: Your land is ruled by a complex government of Satraps and a Prism. Can you explain the hierarchy a little bit? 

BW: Tri-partite government, weak empire. Seven satraps (national governors) who each appoint a Color (ambassador) to the central city. An emperor who is largely symbolic. The Prism is modeled a bit on the Japanese emperors of 1600, who were sidelined by giving them lots of religious duties.
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