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“These terms are married, right?” These quotes make Diaz sound like a challenging interviewee.”
“Ply is a plot-centric novel.”
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““I take issue with the word dystopia ,” he replies to an opening inquiry.”
““ Trust is concerned with finance and capital, and I was a money idiot when I started writing that book.”
“I don’t know at what point a literary umpire decreed that this was anathema, that if you can take something out without affecting the structure, you ought to take it out.” In summation, says Diaz, “I feel that adventure gets a bad rap.” Diaz grew up in Argentina and Sweden but has lived in New York since his 20s.”
“dystopias Eric Olson Hernán Díaz In The Distance Ply profiles Riverhead Books trust Eric Olson Eric Olson is a journalist and critic based in Seattle.”
““People in this world have lost a lot of things that are very painful to lose,” says Diaz.”
“In Ply , his leg work shows when the pincher meets an eccentric physicist named Pola.”
“My note said, ‘A punk Summer Book in the future.’ I actually made myself laugh, which never happens.” Really?”
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““For all the physics,” he says, “for all the post-punk music, I think that this book is about selfhood.”
“We are this interaction.” “Politically, I’m very suspicious of nostalgia,” says Diaz.”
“A new way of thinking.”
“All these novels that we think of as adventure novels, like The Count of Monte Cristo , or [H.G.] Wells, they’re constitutional of the novel as a form.”
““It wasn’t deliberate to write this triumvirate of novels,” says Diaz.”
“What does it mean to be a thinking, self-aware human walking around among other thinking, self-aware humans?”
“It’s about subjectivity.”
“You, I, we emerge from this interaction.”
““Struggling to go back in time wasn’t just reactionary; it was insane,” thinks the pincher.”
“If there’s an apocalypse, there isn’t a ‘post.’ It’s an eschatological word.”