Conversations with Jerome Charyn by Sophie Vallas

Author:Sophie Vallas
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
Published: 2014-08-14T16:00:00+00:00

GM: Since you refer to Faulkner, there is another way in which you subvert the crime novel—and this is something you may share with Faulkner: the emphasis on grotesqueness.

JC: Yes.

GM: For instance, one vivid image I keep from the Sidel saga is the description of the Guzman family, and that particular character of Jeronimo, who is a criminal but also a childish, almost helpless figure. You find this again in the Mino brothers and various characters in your work—and the Geek as well is a case in point.

JC: To me another thing that makes Faulkner such a great writer is that he invests his own psyche in every single character. I’m thinking of the Snopes—I mean, they’re absolutely hateful, but you adore them. And his sympathies go so far, so deep, and the same thing is true for Dostoevsky; that’s why I think they’re probably two of the greatest writers. In a way, it’s beyond technique, I mean their sympathies are so deep that you cannot help but enter these texts and have them completely take you over. I’m thinking of The Devils by Dostoevsky, or The Brothers Karamazov. You’re so involved in these characters and in the world of these characters that they haunt you for life, you never escape them.

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