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I'm not trying to write cinematic novels, but I have been told several times that my style is cinematic.
I was interested in the ways that artists responded to totalitarianism - the Czech Jazz Section, Romanian absurdist theatre, Brecht's alienation effect. The anything-goes, anarchic qualities of jazz and Surrealism seemed to offer a way to cross some of the forbidden frontiers of Eastern Europe.
I've written over 100 short stories. You could say I'm obsessed with short stories.
I was particularly drawn to Berlin because of its literal, concrete division. Two halves making a whole, or two entities that were altered doubles of each other? Twins that had been separated and kept in neighbouring houses and raised according to different sets of rules as a social experiment? It was irresistible as a metaphor for division in the mind, for a split personality.
The Belgians tend to downplay the cultural divide issue, and the far-right issue, but there's a staggering degree of casual racism in Belgium, much worse than in the UK.
The idea that a student can write a sonnet or a novel without having a sound understanding about its history, and where it fits into literature as a whole, seems to me to be manifestly daft.
I love experimental writing, when it's good, and good examples are much more likely to be found in the short form.
I always have lots of zany ideas for promotional stuff as publication nears.
Belgium is a country with a split personality.
The short story feels like the most natural length for prose fiction, or certainly for the kind of ideas and situations I like to encounter.
I am interested in power and in the idea of one country exerting power over another. The Soviets took this to an extreme.
I only like naturalistic stories. I love short, fantastic stories that cast a spell over the reader, that transport you instantly to another place with another set of rules, somewhere imagined by someone else.