As a Pulitzer-nominated novelist, Hernan Diaz knows how national narratives can bring us together. And how they can also deceive us.
has just been longlisted for the prestigious Booker prize—is among those who have seen through the hooey.
The fictional or doubtful quality of the American narrative is central to Diaz’s work. In his first novel,, he recast the mythology of the American Western by placing the narrative on the shoulders of a softhearted immigrant rather than a gun-toting cowboy. With his latest work,, Diaz looks at arguably the most looming of American myths: the tall tale of the Great Man of Finance.. It’s always men. That is something that bothered me.
“I like to mess with the boundaries of what is expected of a text and what it does, almost engaging the reader physically,” Diaz explained. “That’s why the table of contents is at the beginning. I was hoping people will go back and check. The active physical moment of reading is important to me.
“Here is this woman still not being heard after a century. Nobody is reading her stuff to this day. And that was a very eye-opening moment: the extent to which women's voices in general—but in particular in these narratives of power—they’re just not being listened to. And that became a very essential part of the project.”
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