Adam Cadre ([info]adamcadre) wrote,
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[info]arctangent
2009-06-02 02:42 pm UTC (link)
Also, re: baby-mania, in real life Niffenegger is childfree and says that the only period of time she's ever actually wanted kids was when she was writing the passages about Clare's baby-mania and trying to get into her head. It's interesting that she was able to do it so successfully (from my POV), but she says that in real life the process did actually have her sighing at baby shoes and clutching at her uterus and whatnot, so it's apparently enough of a universal female (or human) experience that it can be tapped into by even the most determined non-parents.

The character of Alba does feel a bit like a tacked-on narrative resolution and Clare's sudden baby-mania thus feels tacked-on to her character, but I get the book's reasoning, that it starts up for her when she starts to realize Henry is approaching the oldest age she's ever seen him at. Whether it's an unconscious hormonal barrage or a conscious philosophical choice, parenthood is all about a desire to escape mortality, to have your genes live on, to leave something behind. I've heard a lot of baby-mania really kicks in when people start to look in the mirror and see signs of their own aging.

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