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Article: Belonging nowhere, seeing everywhere: William Trevor and the art of distance.
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- October 1, 1993
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As a writer one doesn't belong anywhere.
Fiction writers, I think, are even more
outside the pale. Because society and
people are our meat, one doesn't really
belong in the midst of society. The great
challenge in writing is always to find
the universal in the local, the parochial.
And to do that, one needs distance.
--William Trevor
No one has had a closer vision, or a hand
at once more ironic and more tender, for the
individual figure. He sees it with all its
minutest signs and tricks--all its heredity
of idiosyncrasies, all its particulars
of weakness and strength, of ugliness and
beauty, of oddity and charm; and yet it ...
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