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4The Daily Tar HeelFriday. February 8. 1985 Lecturer works on 3 books at once Campus Calendar 7 p.m. Free Flick The Rules of the p.m. we can all abide by Shultz, ariety.

House. Noon Talk by Sylvia Sandoval; member of Sal adoran Women's Organization in Union 2lf. 7 p.m. (Granville IV(T' presents Billy (iraham's daughter. Anne I.ott.

speaking in Chapel of the Cross Commons. Off-Campus IVCF presents Jim Abrahamson on Abortion at Chapel Hill Bible Church. IVCF North Chapter meeting with Fran Knott in Union 224. Saturday 9:30 a.m. Anglican Student Fellowship Saturday Breakfast at Chapel of the Cross.

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Only announcements from University recognized and campus organizations will be printed. Friday 8 a.m. CCF Praver Breakfast at CCF Learning how By ANDY MILLER Staff Writer Her office in Greenlaw looks like the typical professor's cave, with its surfaces crowded with books and papers. But the familiar pattern is broken by the small Underwood typewriter, vintage. 1930s, that squats next to her on a table.

And by the images of Jane Fonda and Vivien Leigh and her father. Pan Athas. that appear on the walls beyond her. Daphne Athas is anything but typical. Throughout her writing career, she has pursued new challenges.

She has veered from one form to another. always taking chan ir. ces in her work. And now, Athas, Daphne Athas a lecturer in the department of English at UNC, is working on three books at once each a departure from her six published works. "I don't like to repeat myself," she said with a smile.

"That involves taking risks. If you just churn out stuff, you are inclined to repeat yourself." Athas, 61, has written novels, short stories, poetry and non-fiction in a career which began at UNC, where she received a A.B. degree in English in 1943. Her novel Entering Ephesus, published in 1971, was included in Time magazine's ten best fiction books of the year. Cora, published in 1978, won her the Sir Walter Raleigh Award for fiction.

She is halfway through one of her current projects, a novel. The second book is a "a little fantasy novel," nearly completed, that she compares to Peter Pan because it presents themes along with the story, a fantasy. "I like to write good stories," she said, "but I like to see what's behind it. The it II I I Shah was falling, was a medieval society, and suddenly it had plastered on it everything in the Western world." Athas said the spread of a uniform Western culture was a worldwide phenomena and was a trend that can destroy the uniqueness of countries and regions, including those in the United States. The face of the South has changed too, and she said she feared that it would lose its distinctive identity as a region.

This change also threatens the Southern tradition in literature, Athas said. She adds that it will be difficult to produce literary giants of the caliber of Faulkner, whom she considers "the great American novelist," one who gained much of his literary strength from being part of a unique tradition. "Faulkner writes like Southerners think, she said. "Hemingway created more of a credo than a universe. Faulkner's was more of a universe.

The credo of Hemingway doesn't have anything to do with a woman, not like Faulkner, who has a thousand times more width. He had characters that went further than the South." Contemporary American novels lack that type of broad outlook, she said. "The large view is rejected in general, resented a bit. 'Cosmic' is now a dirty word." She said Third World writers such as Gabriel Garcia Marquez tend to have had this wider outlook in their writing. Of American writers, she admires Bellow and Mailer.

"I like the full-blown books books full of nuts and raisins and things." Despite the weight of her ideas, Athas speaks informally, without pretension. She often smiles while making a point. What she is wearing sweater, boots and corduroy jeans suggests comfort and utility. She enjoys teaching, and her creative writing classes provide inspiration as well as a steady income. "Teaching's a dialogue," she said.

"It's fun to be involved with a dialogue and get paid." Her love of dialogue came from her father, whom she describes as character. "He conducted dialogue at all times, philosophical dialogues," she said. "I grew up with that concern for ideas, the meaning of things." She does her writing at her home in Carrboro, preferring to work in the morning. "Writing is an athletic feat on a typewriter," she said. world behind the language involves a sort of mythology.

This thing (book) is really a myth." Athas has just finished the third book, which she calls "a language book," partly philosophical and partly like a textbook because it has exercises. It evolved from her own ideas on language and from dialogues she has had with students. "Language turns people on," she said. "Meter and rhythm turn people on. The people who are using meter and rhythm and rhyme are the (television) advertisers.

The poets since Ezra Pound have abrogated the use of it." Athas has set high standards for her writing and follows them relentlessly. "Writing to me is something of a way of life," she said, adding that she had discarded hundreds of pages during the course of writing a book. "I respect good hacks, but I started out with something different in mind." She first got the urge to write when she was seven, an inspiration that was nurtured during a traumatic move to Chapel Hill when she was 13. Her family had been rocked by the Depression, and from a wealthy perch in Massachusetts, the Athases moved to "the worst shack" in Carrboro. The move and her reaction to it supplied the basis of the plot of Entering Ephesus, her most autobiographical novel.

"I was a declassed person but with a lot of vision. During the war, everyone was as poor as a churchmouse. You lived by your wits. "Nor. were we scared.

Kids today are scared. They have dreams but are not as daring or foolish as we were." Athas worked her way through college in an unusual way: she read to blind people. Meanwhile, her classwork and a group of fellow writers helped feed her literary desires, and after graduation, she finished a novel, The Weather of the Heart, at age 23. From there she went to Harvard University, where she did graduate work and taught algebra at the Perkins School of the Blind. She was a service club director for the U.S.

Air Force in London and returned in the '60s to North Carolina to Durham Technical Institute and, later, to UNC. She has taught at the University except for leaves of absence, including a year as a Fulbright professor of American literature at Tehran University in Iran, where she witnessed a clash of cultures that would doom the Shah's reign. "Tehran, at its heydey before the Sunday II a.m. CCF Worship Service in the Union. 7 Free Flick "Koyaanisquat.si," 9:30 p.m.

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