Incest, riddles and modern fiction in a dialogue on writing
An extended interview explores incest, riddles, and the link to Sphinx lore across cultures and literature. The author discusses how structure, science, and psychoanalytic ideas shape a modern novel, and notes how teaching, stage work, and aging influence creative work and priorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Oedipus
Levi-Strauss
Amerindia
Pericles
Irving Wallace
Kaswssutra
Portney
Philip Roth
Phil
University of Philadelphia
Far East
Borneo
Princeton
Nassau
Janice
Ulysses
Philadelphia
Alan Jay Lerner
Minneapolis
Leopold Blum
America
Zero Master
Europe
Tyrone Guthrie Theater
Italy
T2one
Burgess
Shakespeare
East
John Dos Passos
U S.A
Melville
Hemingway
Grant
Fitzgerald
Budd Schulberg
Scott Fitzgerald
Andy Griffith
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B. No. Pve
Joyce
Eliot
Ezra Pround
Virginia Woolff
Aldous Huxley
Hermann Hessenho
Kant
Schopenhauer
Karl Marx
Hegel
Hesse
Thomas Hardy
Jane Austen
the Brontes
Pound
Oxford
Robert Taylor
England
Tim
Hermann Hesse
Thomas Mann
Dreyden
Pope
Keats
Shelley
France
Paris
Henry James
Rome