Marina Warner
Elmhirst, Sophie, New Statesman (1996)
You describe yourself as being "irresistibly: attracted to myths". Has that always been the case?
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It started when I was a child. I was brought up a Catholic and I was quite fervent, because I was sent to a convent school. I don't experience myths as supernatural now in the way that I did when I was a believer-I don't consent to these imaginings but I think the imagination has its own life that one lives in and enjoys.
What drew you to writing about the Arabian Nights specifically?
If you want to learn about a culture, you look at what buildings the people lived in but you also want to know about their cosmos. We orient …
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Publication information:
Article title: Marina Warner.
Contributors: Elmhirst, Sophie - Author.
Magazine title: New Statesman (1996).
Volume: 140.
Issue: 5082
Publication date: December 5, 2011.
Page number: 49.
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