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A Pulitzer Prize Winning Take on Finance

2024/8/27
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Hernán Díaz: 本书探讨了金融资本的抽象性及其对社会的影响，以及人们在阅读文本时对叙述的信任。小说采用多重视角和叙事方式，并非为了炫技，而是为了让读者体验到阅读文本的不同方式，并对阅读过程本身进行反思。作者在创作过程中，广泛阅读了相关历史文献，并从自身家庭经历中汲取灵感。作者热爱英语语言，并认为其包容性是其选择用英语写作的原因。 David Remnick: 访谈围绕Hernán Díaz的小说《信任》展开，探讨了小说的主题、创作理念、叙事结构以及作者的创作历程。访谈中，David Remnick与Hernán Díaz就小说的标题、金融资本的抽象性、多重叙述视角、作者的创作灵感来源、语言选择等方面进行了深入的探讨。

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David Remnick interviews Hernan Diaz about his Pulitzer Prize-winning novel "Trust." Diaz discusses the book's exploration of finance capital as a realm of abstraction and how it challenges readers' assumptions.
  • 'Trust' won the 2023 Pulitzer Prize.
  • The novel uses four narrators to offer conflicting perspectives on a Wall Street tycoon and his role in the 1929 crash.
  • Diaz is interested in finance capital as a realm of pure abstraction.

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In honor of what is for many people the final days of summer, the New Yorker Radio Hour team presents a conversation that may inspire your end-of-summer reading list: David Remnick talks to Hernan Diaz about his book, Trust, which won a Pulitzer Prize in 2023. The novel’s plot focuses on the daughter of eccentric aristocrats after she marries a Wall Street tycoon of dubious ethics during the Roaring Twenties. The novel is told by four people in four different formats, which offer conflicting accounts of the couple’s life, the tycoon’s misdeeds, and his role in the crash of 1929. “What I was interested in, and this is why I chose finance capital, I wanted a realm of pure abstraction,” he tells David Remnick. Diaz’s first book,* In The Distance*, will be released in hardback for the first time in October.