![]() ![]() ![]() It would have been almost as if you could turn the book over and read it the opposite way or open it to any section and read the narrative in any order. I started off wanting to plot the story in the form of an anagram, so that you could fold it onto itself. Hoffman’s “The Sandman.” I knew I wanted to tell a fictional narrative that tackled questions of desire and the unconscious hidden in a creepily familiar superficial world. Stephanie LaCava: I started research for the book seven years ago with texts around Freud’s “Uncanny,” like E. What prompted you to write this story in this way? Had it taken on any other forms before the structure of a novel? What was important for you to be getting at in this book? The book is told through multiple characters perspectives and timelines are constantly shifting and overlapping. Gracie Hadland: The Superrationals is the story of a young woman, Mathilde de Saint-Evans, trying to identify herself, her desires, and her ambitions in and around the New York and European art worlds of the 2010s. ![]()
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