In the (summer delayed) second part of our chat with David Gates, we go on (we can't go) with the influence of Samuel Beckett and Jane Austen.
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- 'What I learned from Austen is that every character in a work thinks he or she is the protagonist'
- fiction and the drama of conflicting visions
- Gates, comedy and social combat in Emma
- closed circuit minds and Gates' characters
- 'I'm 69. I have calmed down, somewhat. It is not the buzzing anxiety of being in my 20s'
- 'There is a way in which you always write like yourself'
- 'There is a lot of sameness there' - Gates' literary riffs
- Hitchcock, Rebecca, Psycho and Gates' obsession movie trivia
- literary progression or repetition - Gates v Joyce and the Beatles
- Back to Beckett - from prose to plays
- 'I don't know how to say it without sounding pretentious'
- Target or Tar-jay - jokes and time
Part three will be up in less than three months.
