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The central question of Greek tragedy is why we hurt the people we love most. We live our lives unconsciously, out of control, and hurt even those we intend to protect. In all of this, I think nothing has changed in 2,500 years. Tragedy is the essential literary form of western culture, in which two characters who love each other become enemies and battle each other until they break and are revealed and we test ourselves against them, test our own goodness and badness. I like, also, that a taboo is crossed, that fiction is about what happens when the rules have been broken. We still have everything to learn from the Greeks. My biggest departure from the Greeks is that I tell everything through the landscape, which is something you can’t do on stage.
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