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726 <div id="content" class="site-content"> 727 <div class="ast-container"> 728 729 730 <div id="primary" class="content-area primary"> 731 732 733 <main id="main" class="site-main"> 734 735 736<article class="post-281 post type-post status-publish format-standard has-post-thumbnail hentry category-films category-interviews category-novels category-travel ast-article-single" id="post-281" itemtype="https://schema.org/CreativeWork" itemscope="itemscope"> 737 738 739 740<div class="ast-post-format- ast-no-thumb single-layout-1"> 741 742 743 744 <header class="entry-header "> 745 746 747 <h1 class="entry-title" itemprop="headline">Alex Garland : The Beach : Backpacker Blues</h1><div class="entry-meta">By <span class="posted-by vcard author" itemtype="https://schema.org/Person" itemscope="itemscope" itemprop="author"> <a title="View all posts by Chris Mitchell" href="https://spikemagazine.com/author/chrism/" rel="author" class="url fn n" itemprop="url"> 748 <span class="author-name" itemprop="name"> 749 Chris Mitchell </span> 750 </a> 751 </span> 752 753 / <span class="posted-on"><span class="published" itemprop="datePublished"> May 1, 1999 </span></span></div> 754 755 </header><!-- .entry-header --> 756 757 758 759 <div class="entry-content clear" itemprop="text"> 760 761 762 <p class="standfirst">Nancy Rawlinson finds out why The Beach author Alex Garland is still unsure of his writing success</p> 763<p>No matter where you go on this small planet of ours, you will encounter âGarlandâs Law.â That is, for every 10 people under the age of thirty that you meet, approximately 3.33 per cent of them will have read or be reading Alex Garlandâs first novel, <em>The Beach</em>. Actually, I just made that up, and it already seems too conservative. I have recently been staying in two hostels in the States. In the first dorm room a Danish girl ripped through the book in about three days; her friend had just finished it. In the second, an Oxford University student was a quarter way through, and her travelling companion planned to read it next. On buses in India, on the subway in New York, in international departure lounges everywhere, the distinctive yellow spine of <em>The Beach</em> is truly ubiquitous. In case this is still not sounding familiar, a film adaptation of the book is currently in postproduction and due to hit our screens in spring 2000. It is directed by Danny Boyle of <em>Trainspotting</em> fame and it stars Leonardo Di Caprio. Honestly, could it be any hotter? </p> 764<p><img decoding="async" src="https://spikemagazine.com/garland/beach.jpg" alt="Beach UK cover" align="right" height="200" hspace="10" width="124">In case you are one of the, oooh, seven people left in Britain who are not familiar with the plot, here is a brief summary for you. Richard, a twenty something Brit, arrives on Thailandâs famous Khao San Road â the first stop on the well-trodden backpackerâs trail. On his first night, the man in the room next to him slits his wrists and leaves Richard with a map to a mysterious beach. Along with a French couple, Richard sets out to find this supposed paradise, where a select community are trying to create their own version of utopia. When they finally arr
764ive, having survived a harrowing swim and some AK-47 toting marijuana farmers, the new visitors are welcomed rather uneasily. Tensions arise, not least within Richardâs psyche. You can guess the rest â the book has been described as <em>What I Did On My Holidays</em> meets <em>Apocalypse Now</em> meets <em>Lord Of The Flies</em> and those references are more than just a pat summery. <em>The Beach</em> is essentially a gripping tale of a journey into the heart of darkness, but one that is nicely wrapped up in knowing pop cultural references and located in a somewhat trendy travel destination. It is not hard to see why it was so swiftly optioned for a Hollywood blockbuster. </p> 765<p>So, you may be thinking, what of the author of this mega hit novel? And why, thus far into an interview write up, have I not mentioned his best selling follow up, <em>The Tesseract</em>? Why indeed. More of that later â for now, meet Alex Garland. Some biographical details: He was born in 1970, son of the well-known and respected political cartoonist, Nick Garland. With a resolutely middle-class and intellectual background, he graduated from Manchester University with a degree in History of Art, and was planning on following in a his fathers footsteps before he realized: âThere arenât many openings for a cartoonist.â Instead, he turned his attention to fiction, and started writing <em>The Beach</em> when he was just 23, drawing on his many experiences of travelling (he first went to India when he was 17, on a school trip, and he now makes several visits to South East Asia per year.) </p> 766<p><em>The Beach</em> was brought out in 1996, with no big promotional push from the publishers, yet within a year, it was a best seller. Rave reviews everywhere from The Mail On Sunday to Maxim magazine certainly did no harm, but predominantly it was word of mouth that made <em>The Beach</em> a success. Only three years after he first put pen to paper, Garland was being heralded as the new voice of âGeneration Xâ and making Vogueâs most eligible bachelors list. At such a young age, and on the back of a debut novel, this was a rather heavy weight to bear. </p> 767<p>Bearing this in mind, his media shy and somewhat guarded manner are understandable. Fortunately, in keeping with the ultra-modernism of the book, Garland himself has a very low-key approach to his what he does. âWriting certainly wasnât something I thought I wanted to do as a kid. It was something I chanced upon. And, in a way, I donât think you could say I chose it as my profession. I gave it a try and it worked out, and I enjoy it and thatâs it.â He is similarly down to earth about his situation. Despite being one of the most in-demand authors this side of Nick Hornby, he harbours no illusions. </p> 768<p>âThere is a business side to writing and if you donât sell books then publishers wonât print them. Youâre only as hot as your last novel. I think you can reach a point when youâre not as good as your last novel, you may have written one or even two bad books in a row, and the publishers will hang onto you. But you need to have proved yourself in a long term way before that and I certainly havenât done that yet. I still feel like Iâm doing an incredible bluffing trick and Iâm going to get caught out.â </p> 769<p align="center"><img decoding="async" src="https://spikemagazine.com/garland/garlandsmall.jpg" alt="Alex Garland" height="207" width="200"> </p> 770<p>There are those that would agree with this self-effacing appraisal. Reaction to Garlandâs second book <em>The Tesseract</em> has been mixed. There were some scathing reviews. âA pointlessly elaborate portrait of disparate lives coming togetherâ was one description. âTedious, convoluted, pompousâ was another. Yet others have heaped praise on the book (Michiko Kakutani in The New York Times said it felt like âa Quentin Tarantino or John Woo movie seasoned with some Graham Greene.â) </p> 771<p>It is certainly a more mature and reflexive study than the fast and furious <em>The Beach</em> although personally I find myself in with one foot in both camps; I was not totally convinced by the characters in <em>The Tesseract</em>. The use of film references and American slang works perfectly in <em>The Beach</em>, when all the central characters are European, but somehow I canât quite imagine the rural and local characters in <em>The Tesseract</em> coming out with lines like: âYouâll be brained by a coconut.â </p> 772<p>Set in the Philippines, the story interweaves three narratives. Sean, an Englishman, is on the run from two Philippino mafia henchmen. As they pursue him, he stumbles into the kitchen of Rosa, a Philippino village girl now living with her husband and children in Manila. Cente, a thirteen year-old street child, witnesses the encounter. âBasically what you have in the book is a group of people who canât make sense of everything thatâs around them. And I think I use that as an anti-religious argument,â Garland explains. â Itâs sort of theistic. Itâs not even fate. The point is, sometimes things just happen to people and itâs not for any cosmic or religious reasons. Sometimes things just happen that way.â </p> 773<p>As the above quote indicates, Garland has a knack for seeing and expressing things in a very understandable was, and this is no doubt part of his appeal to a generation turned off by so called âclassicâ yet impenetratable authors. âI know exactly what you mean,â Garland says. âI think if you asked the average literary editor whether they thought my work was equitable with Salman Rushdieâs, they would say no. Well, thatâs not something that bothers me very much and I doubt very much that it bothers Salman Rushdie.â Garlandâs approach to the actual nuts and bolts of writing is similarly non-traditional. </p> 774<p align="center"><img fetchpriority="high" decoding="async" src="https://spikemagazine.com/garland/tesseract.jpg" alt="Tesseract UK cover" height="300" width="186"> </p> 775<p>âFor <em>The Tesseract</em>, I didnât do any research,â he confesses. â Iâve spent more time in The Philippines than anywhere else so there was a certain kind of background detail that I didnât really have to research. But in terms of putting yourself into the heads of different characters, Iâm not really fazed by this culture thing. As long as people have enough money to live and they are not starving to death, then basically peopleâs preoccupations tend to be the same wherever you go. They are worried about their jobs; they are worried about whether their wife or husband is happy, or how their kids are doing. I think I approached <em>The Tesseract</em> thinking the culture is quite cosmetic.â </p> 776<p>This may seem like a strange attitude for a man who has made so much out of basing his work in exotic locations, yet there is a sense that Garland uses South East Asia as only as a backdrop. What he is really interested in is the human story, the development and exploration of different mental states. The way in which human beings make sense of the world. </p> 777<p>Having said this, there is no doubt that at least part of the reason for his success lies his depiction of Europeans abroad, which coincided perfectly with the explosion in the backpacking market. Locations like Thailand and The Philippines are now accessible and extremely desirable places to visit. Garland sums up this shift in global tourism when he recollects his first travelling experience. âMy memory is basically that I had a good time, and the main thing that I learnt was how easy it is. If you get the money together and a ticket, you can pretty much go anywhere you want to go. I suppose I
777imagine that there was some sort of invisible barrier that stops you from going to these places, but the only real thing that stops you is cash.â </p> 778<p>Considering his position, lack of money should be no impediment to future trips. But for now, Alex Garland is keeping his feet firmly on the ground. âMy philosophy of life is.just enjoying it, I think. Iâve started work on another book but at the moment Iâm mostly working on a screenplay with a bunch of mates; weâre just trying to see if we can get it together. Itâs half set in Chile and half in Russia and based around a story which links the two countries.â Now, who do you think will be playing the central role? You know it will happen. 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