{"id":106,"date":"2006-12-27T12:52:02","date_gmt":"2006-12-27T17:52:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?p=106"},"modified":"2012-02-29T23:34:43","modified_gmt":"2012-03-01T04:34:43","slug":"bss-86-claire-messud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/bss-86-claire-messud\/","title":{"rendered":"Claire Messud (BSS #86)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Claire Messud is most recently the author of <i>The Emperor&#8217;s Children<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/claremessud.jpeg\" alt=\"\" title=\"claremessud\" width=\"405\" height=\"330\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2609\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/claremessud.jpeg 405w, http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/wp-content\/uploads\/2006\/12\/claremessud-300x244.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 600px) 91vw, (max-width: 900px) 600px, (max-width: 1060px) 50vw, (max-width: 1200px) 520px, (max-width: 1400px) 43vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5043\"><!--[if lt IE 9]><script>document.createElement('audio');<\/script><![endif]-->\n<audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-106-1\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo86.mp3?_=1\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo86.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo86.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo86.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=106-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo86.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo86.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 39:38 &#8212; 36.3MB)<\/p>\n<p><b>Condition of Mr. Segundo:<\/b> Trying to locate his voice.<\/p>\n<p><b>Author:<\/b> <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Claire_Messud\">Claire Messud<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>Subjects Discussed:<\/b> Richard Yates&#8217; <i>Revolutionary Road<\/i>, references to revolution in <i>The Emperor&#8217;s Children<\/i>, Russian literature, Chauncey Gardner in <i>Being There<\/i>, Dostoevsky, the influences that spawned Bootie, on Messud writing novels outside her generational milieu, responding to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2006\/08\/27\/books\/review\/ORourke.html?ex=1314331200&#038;en=23d582a35dd13b2d&#038;ei=5088&#038;partner=rssnyt&#038;emc=rss\">Meghan O&#8217;Rourke&#8217;s review<\/a>, why Messud didn&#8217;t present contrasting ideologies in <i>The Emperor&#8217;s Children<\/i>, hermetic atmosphere, Deborah Solomon and New York media types, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.tinglealley.com\">Tingle Alley<\/a> and <i>Infinite Jest<\/i>, Fort Greene and getting New York neighborhoods right, the influence of decor on character action, preposterous book titles, the cat in Paula Fox&#8217;s <i>Desperate Characters<\/i> vs. the cat in <i>The Emperor&#8217;s Children<\/i>, Anglicized dialogue, fantastic vs. realist environment, cognitive development, <i>The Great Escape<\/i>, and Anthony Powell.<\/p>\n<p><b>EXCERPT FROM SHOW:<\/B><\/p>\n<p><b>Messud:<\/b>  I always think of Annabelle as somebody who&#8217;s actually out there accomplishing things when nobody&#8217;s paying attention.  But &#8220;revolutionary&#8221; is probably too strong a word for [Bootie].  He&#8217;s someone who&#8217;s going to unsettle things and try to change things.  And he comes from a different place: mentally as well as physically.  I think that, for me, there&#8217;s a tension in the novel, I suppose, between Murray Thwaite, Bootie&#8217;s uncle, who is an old-fashioned liberal, and Ludovic Seeley, who is the person to whom the word &#8220;revolution&#8221; is most often attached. And he is a sort of &#8212; a slippery fish.  He&#8217;s somebody &#8212; truth is a changeable thing. Meaning is a changeable thing.  What&#8217;s good is a changeable thing.  And Bootie is somewhere in between these two.  And he&#8217;s somebody who would like to emulate his uncle and admire his uncle, and finds that when he sees him up close, that he can&#8217;t fully do that.<\/p>\n<div class=\"powerpress_player\" id=\"powerpress_player_5044\"><audio class=\"wp-audio-shortcode\" id=\"audio-106-2\" preload=\"none\" style=\"width: 100%;\" controls=\"controls\"><source type=\"audio\/mpeg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo86.mp3?_=2\" \/><a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo86.mp3\">http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo86.mp3<\/a><\/audio><\/div><p class=\"powerpress_links powerpress_links_mp3\">Listen: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo86.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_pinw\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Play in new window\" onclick=\"return powerpress_pinw('http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/segundo\/?powerpress_pinw=106-podcast');\" rel=\"nofollow\">Play in new window<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.edrants.com\/_mp3\/segundo86.mp3\" class=\"powerpress_link_d\" title=\"Download\" rel=\"nofollow\" download=\"segundo86.mp3\">Download<\/a> (Running Time: 39:38 &#8212; 36.3MB)<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Claire Messud is most recently the author of The Emperor&#8217;s Children. 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