The Lost Language of Belief. A Conversation with Jonathan Lethem

none1noIn June 2014 Silvia Albertazzi interviewed the American author Jonathan Lethem while he was writer in residence at the Florentine site of New York University. They talked about his work (his latest novel, "Dissident Gardens" and his major successes, "Motherless Brooklyn", "The Fortress of Solitude", "Girl in Landscape"); contemporary literature and politics; fiction and literary influences; great authors of the past such as Dickens and Christina Stead and the art of story-telling. This is the full English text of their conversation.Jonathan Lethem commented on this article: "I think it is one of the best and most thoughtful interviews I managed on the subject of Dissident Gardens"mixedSilvia AlbertazziSilvia Albertazz