![]() ![]() ![]() “I think it’s more that it’s bound to,” Rooney says. I ask Rooney if she thinks good art should make a political statement. Rooney says she spends a lot of her time thinking about what defines “good” art. ![]() When I interview Rooney via email to discuss the political mission of literature and its potential to effect radical social change, however, she insists that she is “just a novelist”. ![]() In an RTE radio interview, she joked that her aim for Conversations with Friends was to start the revolution. The prose is taut and the interior landscapes of the characters are rich with emotional entanglement.īut perhaps one of the most striking – and often dismissed – elements of her work is its radical political current. Both her debut novel, Conversations with Friends, and her most recent work, Normal People (which the Guardian was quick to proclaim a “future classic”), are deliciously magnetic reads. Over the past 18 months, the 27-year-old novelist’s books have been at the centre of a seven-way bidding auction, won the Sunday Times Young Writer of the Year Award and a place on the Man Booker longlist, and adapted into an upcoming BBC Three series by Oscar-nominated director Lenny Abrahamson. Sally Rooney is the current darling of the literary world. ![]()
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