People reveal themselves in the way they love or pretend to love or avoid mentioning her name. For the novel, I was interested in a character with a name so directional that everyone she meets has to take a position on it. Her name is sufficiently rare that you only have to type her first name into Google to find her. When I had a reading in Cardiff recently, the real Garthine was in the audience.
I love this name! I first heard it because my sister knows a Garthine. Why did you choose the name Garthene? Where did it come from? Do you think it’ll catch on? Joe Dunthorne I wanted the novel to be a short, sharp descent with no relief. And this scene felt like it was letting the reader off the hook, somehow, giving them a breather. But as I wrote the novel I realised I wanted to push my narrator over the edge as efficiently and ruthlessly as possible. And in early drafts of the novel there was much more back story. How you were able to cut this scene from the book? In a novel about relationships, isn’t it important to show how the two characters meet? Joe Dunthorne By the end, the novel has proposed an original conception of innocence sympathy and contempt, warmth and acidity, irony and sincerity are mixed up together in surprising but satisfying proportions.We asked Joe Dunthorne a few questions about his new novel. Readers who are allergic to irony and archness may not be impressed-the book is so arch that you could drive a horse and carriage through it-but it provides a steady flow of good gags and is, in its way, satisfyingly resonant too. brief and accessible, but very carefully crafted. What other form except broad comedy could you use to depict these pampered kidults, with their carpenters’ shirts, their fancy smartphones and their pointless jobs?. And where so many modern British novels with modern British settings founder in their attempt to wring compelling dramas out of trivial, uneventful lives, Dunthorne seems on very solid ground. It’s rare today to see a really talented writer go all-out for comedy, but Dunthorne makes it look like the obvious choice. The Adulterants is a very funny comedy of arrested development.
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