Fiction is one of the places we can go to experience real closure.
WORD Christchurch Writers and Readers Festival was a place for hometown heroes and heroines as well as international stars. Eleanor Catton was one of the highlights of The Stars are out tonight. She read from The Luminaries in a piece that included my favourite quote (page 502 Luminaries nerds): ‘I suppose that to know a thing is to see it from all sides’.
On Saturday 30 August, Eleanor was in conversation with Kate De Goldi in front of a packed Cardboard Cathedral. Here are some of the quotable quotes from this interesting session:
Very buzzy & nearly a full house for Eleanor Catton at #wordchch. ^DR pic.twitter.com/kcHt7sYa3A
— ChChCityLibraries (@ChristchurchLib) August 30, 2014
The Luminaries is the reverso Murder on the Orient Express. 12 people but none is the perpetrator. #wordchch
— ChChCityLibraries (@ChristchurchLib) August 30, 2014
Kate de Goldi and Eleanor Catton in the great Transitional Cathedral #wordchch pic.twitter.com/bg15mUnlZO
— Victoria Uni Press (@VUPBooks) August 30, 2014
The grand choreography of The Luminaries – every single character’s relation & interpretation of events is partial. #wordchch
— ChChCityLibraries (@ChristchurchLib) August 30, 2014
“The most holy of all units is the paragraph.” Eleanor Catton #wordchch
— ChChCityLibraries (@ChristchurchLib) August 30, 2014
Eleanor Catton took about 4 hours for a paragraph. Three paragraphs was a good long day. #wordchch
— ChChCityLibraries (@ChristchurchLib) August 30, 2014
Fendalton Library gets a shout out from Eleanor Catton. We’re not worthy! #wordchch ^DR
— ChChCityLibraries (@ChristchurchLib) August 30, 2014
“There is something scary about a woman who wakes up to herself”. @EleanorCatton on why heroines in Victorian novels often die. #wordchch
— ChChCityLibraries (@ChristchurchLib) August 30, 2014
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