Philip Pullman official updates
December 14, 2007
Philip Pullman’s official website has been updated since the release of the film adaptation of The Golden Compass, with the message: “I shall have more to say about it in due course, but for the moment there are two interviews I did recently in which I think I’ve managed to say a few things clearly.” He links to Peter Chattaway’s FilmChat blog with whom he conducted a lengthy interview by e-mail, and a conversation with editor-in-chief James Mustich for the Barnes & Noble Review on the art of storytelling. The e-mail interview was conducted earlier for an article in Christianity Today but wass posted by the original interviewer in its entirety on his personal blog. The Barnes & Noble interview was conducted 1st November, likely during Pullman’s North American tour.
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Wow, that Barnes & Noble interview is great! He is so perceptive, I don’t know how he does it. I especially like what he has to say about postmodernism and the self-conscious concern with “surface” rather than “subject” in art. Being at a school of fine arts where I’m constantly awash in postmoderism, it’s a relief to hear someone take that to task, you have no idea.
… although I do wish he would lay off Lord of the Rings a bit. I mean, it would get pretty tiresome if all stories were in the service of metaphors all the time.