Une intervierw d'Orson Scott Card

[jerome]

Orson Scott Card est en interview sur le net.

Petit extrait :
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Q: Most of your books seem to have common themes, such as everyday magic and redemption. Many of them also involve characters in difficult situations making tough choices. What draws you to these themes in your writing?
Orson Scott Card : I don't think of these as themes - certainly I don't plan them. To me, the thing that makes stories interesting is tough choices. I'm drawn to good people having to choose between bad alternatives. (Maybe that's why I feel so much in harmony with K.J. Parker's writing - long, deeply detailed human stories about people who are really trying to do good things and always ending up causing horrible ones.)

But what you said about "everyday magic." I never thought of it that way. But since magic is always a "supernatural means to power," it occurs to me now for the first time that maybe I'm unconsciously extrapolating the way we Mormons live our religion into the way my fictional characters use their magic. That is, we live our religion in a practical way, and believe that our daily work is a natural part of our connection with spiritual things. Indeed, our concept of what is "spiritual" has zero mystical content. It's just a fact of life. So maybe that attitude inadvertently shows up in my fiction. Certainly I feel no affinity with fantasy novels that get all mystical about magic. To me, it never feels "real" - as even fantasy must feel real in order to engage our concern and belief."

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