Robin Hobb est en interview sur le site Wired. Elle revient notamment sur son recueil de nouvelles, L'Héritage et autres nouvelles (qui vient de paraître en France chez Pygmalion).
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| Wired: You recently released a book called The Inheritance & Other Stories, featuring short fiction from throughout your career — as both Megan Lindholm and Robin Hobb. Many of those stories deal with characters living in poverty. Why do you think that’s such a recurring theme in your work? Hobb: Well, they say, “Write what you know.” [Laughs] I will not claim to have lived in poverty. I have seen true poverty, and I know what it looks like, but I’ve certainly lived at the lower level of income. I would say that many of the characters in my stories do not live in true poverty — they are not out on the street, they are not wondering if there will be anything to eat in the next week. They are people who are at the lower echelons of the economic strata. Why do the stories happen there? Well, because they do. It’s not as if I sat down and said, “I’m going to write a series of stories about people at the lower economic strata.” It’s simply that I get a story idea and I say, “Where is this set, and who are these characters?” And that’s how it comes out. I think if you look at the full strata there, they are people who are mostly working blue-collar, and sometimes in the spectrum of fantasy, people who actually work every day for a living and have a tight budget can seem like they’re poor, when actually for most of us that’s a reality. |
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