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So far, no one has asked the question I fear the most. I hope no one will ask this question, so I have to ask myself this question and then try to answer it myself. The question is: how dare you? As an Englishman, how dare you write an expanded book about America, American mythology, and the American soul? Is it special as a country, as a country, as an idea? Since I am British, I want to shrug my shoulders immediately and promise that this will not happen again. But then I dared to write my novel "American Gods", which needs to meet the following conditions.
When I was young, I wrote a comic book about dreams and stories called "Sandman" (still printed in ten graphic novels, you should read it, no). Then he kept asking: "You live in the UK. How do you tell so much of this story in the United States? What I want to point out is that from a media perspective, the UK is almost the 51st state. We have American movies and we watch American TV. He said: "I can't write about Seattle in the way the locals like, but I will write about a New Yorker who has never been to Seattle. Of course, I was wrong. I didn't do this. Instead, I did an internal Provincial, much more interesting thing: I created a completely fictitious
America in which Sandman can act.A place of delusion and impossibility that transcends reality. This was a good thing for me until I moved to the United States eight years ago. I gradually realized that the United States I wrote was completely fictional, while the real America was fictional. What you see is what you get, and the surface is more interesting than science fiction. I suspect that the immigration experience is universal (even if you are an immigrant like me, you have a firm grasp of his UK, almost superstitious).Country of Citizenship). On the one hand, you are the one, on the other hand, the United States. It's not just you, so they are trying to find out.
You are trying to find out, he is resisting. It is large enough and contains enough contradictions to be ignored.I can only describe a small part of it. And it's too big to see. I really didn't know which book to write until the summer of 1998 when I was in Reykjavik, Iceland. Then there are episodes of the plot, where various clumsy characters and things that look a bit like structures converge in my mind. Either way, this book is focused.Romance and travel.
This will have to do with the experience of immigrants, which people believed when they came to the United States. What happened to what they believed? I want to write an article about fabulous places in America. I think that although there are a lot of things I already know in the novel, there are more discoveries when I tour and discover what I found.So I drove until I found a place to write, and then one place after another, sometimes at home, sometimes not, in one place, for almost two years, I wrote one word at a time until I had a book. After he was released from prison, the shadows and the jobs they provided him. It tells the story of a small town in the Midwest and the disappearances that occur there every winter. When I wrote this article, I discovered why roadside landmarks are the most sacred places in America. Other strange ways and moments, scary and charming,When it was almost finished, all I had to do was to pull all the strings together. I left the country again, hid in a huge, cold, old house in Ireland, and swayed to write all the things yet to be written. . There is a peat fire nearby. Then the book was finished, and I stopped. In retrospect, I knew that I was actually afraid, but I had no choice.
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