Viva Lewes Issue #110 November 2015

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in town this month: literature Bernadine Evaristo On literary experimentation and Mrs Brown’s Boys You might not guess it from her latest novel, a readable tragicomedy that’s been heartily endorsed by Dawn French, but Bernardine Evaristo is “very interested in form and being formally experimental with my work”, and has even written verse-novels. This month, she’ll be telling <strong>Lewes</strong> Literary Society about ‘subverting the mainstream, challenging boundaries and pushing back literary limits’. Is it difficult to be subversive nowadays? There don’t seem to be that many taboos anymore. Well, writing about a 74-year-old homosexual Caribbean man [in her latest novel, Mr Loverman]… is it a taboo? Yes. Is there a reason why black homosexual men and women do not appear in British fiction? Yes. And that’s quite complicated but the heart of it is that it’s a subject that people are afraid to tackle. So yes, when I say subverting the mainstream, basically the mainstream is the body of white, British literature written from that perspective, which is the majority of literature being published in this country. People always say: ‘But what about this person? What about that person?’ They might mention Zadie Smith or Andrea Levy or Malorie Blackman, and then they very quickly run out of names. There aren’t that many of us out there. So when you’re writing from an outsider’s perspective, if you like, writing stories that haven’t been told and are very different to the mainstream, then you’re subverting it. Is there a trade-off between artistically pushing boundaries and making your books Photo by Sharon Wallace accessible? That’s something I think about a lot. But, at the end of the day, I have to stay true to my creative instincts. When I start writing a novel, if it looks like it’s going to be quite experimental, which is what’s happening with my new novel, I have to go with it… Anyway, Mr Loverman is a very accessible book; I know that because of the reader response that I’ve had to it. When I write verse novels, or novels with verse, the form can actually be a barrier to people even wanting to read it, even though once they read a book like The Emperor’s Babe, they realise it’s not difficult; it’s accessible poetry, if you like. Apparently you like Mrs Brown’s Boys. Which is interesting, because you write these boundary-pushing novels and novels-in-verse, and then… Sometimes people think writers are sitting there reading the TLS all the time, or some deep, meaningful, erudite academic book. We’re human! My work has a lot of humour in it, actually. And I really do like popular culture, a lot. The whole myth about writers in an ivory tower, just kind of living in their imagination, doesn’t apply. Well, I don’t want to speak for other writers, but you need to be out there experiencing life as it’s experienced by everybody else. So yes, I absolutely love Mrs Brown’s Boys. It’s very 70s, very slapstick, it’s very bawdy and very crude, very knowing, very entertaining, very cheeky, very smutty. I love all those things. Steve Ramsey Nov 24th, All Saints, 8pm lewesliterarysociety.co.uk 47
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