By Pamela Nathan
Paul Beatty, recently announced as the 2016 winner of the Man Booker prize for his novel, ‘The Sellout’, is the first American to win the prestigious British prize, however his book was rejected by 18 publishers before Beatty could find a publisher for his work.
In this article in The Guardian, Beatty discusses some really interesting notions on who has permission to tell what stories, and how we listen, filter and interpret the world.
While I am yet to read what sounds to be a challenging book on many fronts, Beatty’s thoughts on the act of ‘listening’ struck a chord. As a psychoanalyst and through applying pyschoanalytic principles to the work of CASSE, listening is central to my role. Beatty’s comments on listening are insightful and worth sharing:
“One skill he picked up was how to “listen to yourself listen. Not listen to yourself thinking, or listen to yourself speaking, but to listen to yourself listening. To think about what gets in and what doesn’t: what you missed, how you heard it.” It’s a way, he says, of reading one’s own work critically. “Beyond that, it helps me interpret the world.”
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