Interview with Elizabeth Jolley


something from society and you can’t always tell what it is. The poem doesn’t always work on the mind. Other things are happening below the surface. Certainly there are more distractions from media these days which we didn’t have during the war. Television is fine in its place and so is the ordinary novel – they are just ways of producing either the book or film or lecture – we can have all those wonderful things which we didn’t have back then.

Maggie: Do you consider An Innocent Gentleman to be experimental/post modern in its structure?

Elizabeth: Not at all, it is a very basic, straightforward story and not meant to be taken experimentally.

Maggie: Are you working on something new?

Elizabeth: Not at the moment no – I’m in Melbourne promoting An Innocent Gentleman, and there is nothing concrete which is in the works. I’m always thinking about ideas though of course.

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