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The Narrator by Michael Cisco5/26/2023 ![]() Lawrence: What were your literary influences when writing the Traitor? Evocative names are a very economical way to produce the ‘air’ of another history, culture, etc. ![]() Michael Cisco: Wite was meant to imply both the blankness of whiteness and the old English word “wight,” which is, I believe, a generic word for “person.” Otherwise I named the characters in keeping with their sounds. Is there a story behind the names of the characters as well? Nophtha, Wite and Tzdze all sound ‘alien’. Lawrence: I find I am intrigued by the particular names you chose for your characters in The Traitor. While this was more an intuition than an idea when I wrote the book, I wanted him to betray himself in his own way of speaking. The narrator’s character had therefore to come out more in his manner of telling his story than in expository passages about himself. Michael Cisco: The Traitor is a first-person narrative, and is meant to be read more or less as a performance, like a long monologue. ![]() Lawrence: What were your aims when writing The Traitor? ![]()
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