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Rabih Alameddine recently blogged for Powells.com about his first novel, The Hakawati.
April 29, 2008:
On Imps, Rabbits, and Lies
I come from the lands of Scheherazade, who could not afford to be dull. Had she not dressed her tales in fineries — oy, vey. In the Lebanese dialect, to embellish is to "salt and pepper" a story, to add spice, so to speak, to make less bland. Without it, one might as well eat Kraft Singles.
I suppose it was inevitable that I would one day become a writer of fiction, using the same silly techniques from my childhood. I became a dying man, and his hallucinations were mine. I became a woman who couldn't write beyond the first chapter of her memoir (she lied throughout, of course). In my new novel, I became a hakawati — a storyteller — but the teller of the stories isn't really me. When I write, I fabricate. Art, after all, comes from "artifice." I've always considered novelists to be grifters, charlatans, the greatest of them marvelously proficient liars.
We readers tend to ascribe to fiction a certain level of veracity. I assume that for most of us, the more involved we are with a novel, the more likely we are to think it's real — so much so that something similar must have happened to the author. All of us do at some level, a few of us more than others....
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"Is he pensive," Oreo mumbles to Zooey, "or just sick of the story?"
Zooey's guess: "He wants to locate himself in the moment."
"I'm tired of voices," Bagheera explains. "I like you all very much, and I don't want to miss the story. But let me stop paying attention to you. Just, how about for the rest of the night we let our brains wander?"
Zooey nods. "Understood." The proposition makes good, sound sense, apparently, but Oreo has no idea why.
After a few minutes of quiet, Chester settles down and stops pacing.
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But their faces say, together: nap.
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