the handmaid s tale became, in effect, your generation s 1984. well, maybe, sort of. but, you know, at the time, it wasn t considered very plausible. hmm. ..by many. so, in 1985, it was not seen as a real possibility. that s interesting. you wrote it in 1984. idid. isn t that corny? not only that, i was writing it in west berlin, surrounded by the wall. living in west berlin, you were, i presume, very aware of what was happening on the other side of that wall. yes. yes, they made sonic booms every sundayjust to remind us that they were there. and you were writing the handmaid s tale in berlin at that time and that atmosphere, that that sense of difference was then feeding into the words that you were writing? yeah. more, more through actually visiting those places. so, we went to, um, east germany that was easy for us, we were canadians.
by the wall. living in west berlin, you were, i presume, very aware of what was happening on the other side of that wall. yes. yes, they made sonic booms every sundayjust to remind us that they were there. and you were writing the handmaid s tale in berlin at that time and that atmosphere, that that sense of difference was then feeding into the words that you were writing? yeah. more, more through actually visiting those places. so, we went to, um, east germany that was easy for us, we were canadians. then there was czechoslovakia. fairly tightly sewed up but you can talk to people as long as you went into a field. and then, there was poland, which was already pretty loosey goosey. so, those experiences of talking to people who had to be very careful about what they said, and you had to be very careful about what you repeated. it was veryjohn le carre. er, the whole thing,
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