Etgar Keret Reads Janet Frame

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The New Yorker: Fiction

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2019-09-02

46 分钟
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Etgar Keret joins Deborah Treisman to read and discuss "You Are Now Entering the Human Heart," by Janet Frame, from a 1969 issue of the magazine. Keret has published several short-story collections, including "The Bus Driver Who Wanted to Be God," "The Girl on the Fridge," "Suddenly, a Knock on the Door," and "Fly Already." His memoir, "The Seven Good Years," was published in 2015.

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  • This is the New Yorker fiction podcast from the New Yorker magazine.

  • I'm Deborah Treisman, fiction editor at the New Yorker.

  • Each month we invite a writer to choose a story from the magazine's archives to read and discuss.

  • This month, we're going to hear you are now entering the Human Heart by Janet Frame, which was published in the New Yorker in March of 1969.

  • Teacher is not afraid, are you?

  • The attendant persisted.

  • He leaned forward, pronouncing judgment on her, while she suddenly jerked her head and lifted her hands in panic to get rid of the snake.

  • The story was chosen by Edgar Carrot, whose short story collections include suddenly a knock on the door and fly already.

  • Hi, Ecgar.

  • Hi.

  • So what made you choose a story by Janet Frame to read today?

  • Well, first of all, I love her short fiction.

  • I think that there is something very free in it.

  • Whenever she writes, you really feel that she's not aiming for some kind of goal or she's not trying to initiate a specific kind of dialogue with her readers, but she just kind of floats or levitates, you know, this kind of feeling of floating in zero gravity.

  • And this is always what I aspire for when I write, to forget about everything and just be.

  • Do you think that was how she actually wrote, or is that an effect that she pulls off?

  • I'm naive.

  • I think this is how she actually wrote.

  • And actually, to be honest, you know, there is something.

  • There are many writers who are much more famous and well read from Janet Frame.