"Our childhood is still fly. There are some experiences that transform children into adults much earlier than they should be."
I
for John Irving a mixture of affection and admiration, since my meeting with TS Garp a day of gloom Angevin, there it eighteen years. Since almost everything I read about him, the Hotel New Hampshire to A widow paper, through A Prayer for Owen or the Work of God, the share of devil, keeping a particular tenderness in World According to Garp. Many of his characters, as Jenny Fields, Dr. Larch, Homer Wells, Owen Meany or Ruth Cole, were etched in my memory as if I had met in the flesh. Like John Irving because he is one of those novelists who are not afraid of creating a fiction with characters more real than real life, a fiction filled with breath and generosity, embracing whole lives, and where a moment of pure slapstick can fail without warning in the most poignant emotion. Like Irving because he belongs to the family of great storytellers who know how to knit a plot mesh after mesh and then focused on writing alone, this intuitive flow, rational, and scary magic that gives life to all and has the power to forget the real player. I like it because, like all great writers, he can not get rid of his obsessions, which are all arrow mark the path in all his work. Readers love with his prose, locate all these motives, or winks inimitable who find themselves in a novel to the other: so that in a novel, Irving was a great chance to cross bears, and strong women buxom, snarling dogs, the "suspect sex", fatal accidents or children raised by single parent. More profoundly, John Irving writes on visceral fears, especially that of losing his. Or on those childhood wounds that fit us like tattoos invisible, deflecting the course of our lives.
Last Night In Twisted River
, young Danny Baciagalupo - who lives alone with his father in a harsh land of lumberjacks and loggers in northern America, sees his life changed after a tragic mistake : he accidentally kills the mistress of her father taking her for a bear! Following this accident, the life of father and son becomes a mare to escape the vengeance of the husband of the dead, the Cowboy, sly character and the cruel hunt endlessly. This second accident follows one who caused the death of Danny's mother, drowned in the River for Twisted wanted to dance on ice. Both injuries are at the heart of man become Danny, and are probably not unrelated to his vocation as a writer. Writer who will always remain a mystery to those who love him and wonder about the part of autobiography in his fiction, happy man back from his own life, but also a single father of a little Joe for which it is done, like all parents to John Irving, a blood ink. "I write about what I fear and not on the events that have happened to me. But I argue that what you fear, what you never happened, but you fear, is part of your autobiography "Irving said in an interview. In last night at Twisted River Danny discovers one night the little Joe on the floor and was out of bed to see the stars and owes its survival to the fact that the road was going to crush the eye was attracted by the white coat of the child. For his father, it's as if the child was dead the first time that night and was now on borrowed time:
"He brought Joe into his room and changed. It was hard to look him in the eye, because he saw them wide open and blind, as he would have found had he discovered the dead child in his white coat on the floor. "
In the fictional universe of Irving, fatal accidents are legion and nightmares seem destined to come true: the mother of the narrator of A Prayer for Owen died reached the temple by a ball baseball, and I'll meet you , that of Heather Burns gets hit by a truck in Edinburgh because she forgot to look right through it. Having seen death strike blindly, so as gratuitous and absurd, the hero of Irving haunted by the anguished fear of losing another. "Hold on, Daniel, and avoids get you killed," repeated his son Dominic Baciagalupo like a mantra. This vertiginous terror is the job of the writer to have the courage to listen, as explained in Ketchum, lumberjack friend and guardian angel of the two fugitives, his protege Danny
"- You Round and round, you have art around the ticklish subject.
- You think?
- I think. Looks like you're trying to avoid talking about what angry. We must dive in to the contrary , one must imagine, Danny. "
If he was a dangerous subject, or painful choice for John Irving, as related to his personal history, it was that of a father abandoning her child. And that is masterfully it confronts in I'll meet you
, saga centered on the character of Jack Burns, boy abandoned by his father and raised by a mother tattoo artist who discovers that her mother thirty years has manipulated its childhood memories to serve its own interests. He starts searching for the truth, and goes in search of a father whose absence has been to influence his life:
"Most of our memories are lying, like photos and postcards. The snow, untouched and pristine, the Christmas candles in the windows of houses where evil is being done to children is invisible and ignored. "
If Irving's novels remind us of the fragility of existence and the terrible burden of childhood injuries, they are mostly odes to life, friendship, love and warmth. The humor and absurdity continue to play their part in the tragedy, and you will not soon forget certain scenes of anthology, as the funeral Mass very special mother Jack, I'll meet you in where thirty tattooed biker intimately silence a zealous pastor who had to impose a sermon by ignoring the last wishes of the deceased ... And even after having seen terrible, nothing is ever final, as recalled by Mrs. Mc Quat (called the Grey Ghost) to little Jack Burns I'll meet you :
- "Because, except natural disasters, the role of victim chooses, "said the Grey Ghost."
If you have not read John Irving, you are very lucky. And if you know it, do not miss his last two novels, proof positive that he is aging, the best American novelist-wrestler does not lose his hand.
soon.
Gaëlle Nohant
for John Irving a mixture of affection and admiration, since my meeting with TS Garp a day of gloom Angevin, there it eighteen years. Since almost everything I read about him, the Hotel New Hampshire to A widow paper, through A Prayer for Owen or the Work of God, the share of devil, keeping a particular tenderness in World According to Garp. Many of his characters, as Jenny Fields, Dr. Larch, Homer Wells, Owen Meany or Ruth Cole, were etched in my memory as if I had met in the flesh. Like John Irving because he is one of those novelists who are not afraid of creating a fiction with characters more real than real life, a fiction filled with breath and generosity, embracing whole lives, and where a moment of pure slapstick can fail without warning in the most poignant emotion. Like Irving because he belongs to the family of great storytellers who know how to knit a plot mesh after mesh and then focused on writing alone, this intuitive flow, rational, and scary magic that gives life to all and has the power to forget the real player. I like it because, like all great writers, he can not get rid of his obsessions, which are all arrow mark the path in all his work. Readers love with his prose, locate all these motives, or winks inimitable who find themselves in a novel to the other: so that in a novel, Irving was a great chance to cross bears, and strong women buxom, snarling dogs, the "suspect sex", fatal accidents or children raised by single parent. More profoundly, John Irving writes on visceral fears, especially that of losing his. Or on those childhood wounds that fit us like tattoos invisible, deflecting the course of our lives.
Last Night In Twisted River
, young Danny Baciagalupo - who lives alone with his father in a harsh land of lumberjacks and loggers in northern America, sees his life changed after a tragic mistake : he accidentally kills the mistress of her father taking her for a bear! Following this accident, the life of father and son becomes a mare to escape the vengeance of the husband of the dead, the Cowboy, sly character and the cruel hunt endlessly. This second accident follows one who caused the death of Danny's mother, drowned in the River for Twisted wanted to dance on ice. Both injuries are at the heart of man become Danny, and are probably not unrelated to his vocation as a writer. Writer who will always remain a mystery to those who love him and wonder about the part of autobiography in his fiction, happy man back from his own life, but also a single father of a little Joe for which it is done, like all parents to John Irving, a blood ink. "I write about what I fear and not on the events that have happened to me. But I argue that what you fear, what you never happened, but you fear, is part of your autobiography "Irving said in an interview. In last night at Twisted River Danny discovers one night the little Joe on the floor and was out of bed to see the stars and owes its survival to the fact that the road was going to crush the eye was attracted by the white coat of the child. For his father, it's as if the child was dead the first time that night and was now on borrowed time: "He brought Joe into his room and changed. It was hard to look him in the eye, because he saw them wide open and blind, as he would have found had he discovered the dead child in his white coat on the floor. "
In the fictional universe of Irving, fatal accidents are legion and nightmares seem destined to come true: the mother of the narrator of A Prayer for Owen died reached the temple by a ball baseball, and I'll meet you , that of Heather Burns gets hit by a truck in Edinburgh because she forgot to look right through it. Having seen death strike blindly, so as gratuitous and absurd, the hero of Irving haunted by the anguished fear of losing another. "Hold on, Daniel, and avoids get you killed," repeated his son Dominic Baciagalupo like a mantra. This vertiginous terror is the job of the writer to have the courage to listen, as explained in Ketchum, lumberjack friend and guardian angel of the two fugitives, his protege Danny
"- You Round and round, you have art around the ticklish subject.
- You think?
- I think. Looks like you're trying to avoid talking about what angry. We must dive in to the contrary , one must imagine, Danny. "
If he was a dangerous subject, or painful choice for John Irving, as related to his personal history, it was that of a father abandoning her child. And that is masterfully it confronts in I'll meet you
, saga centered on the character of Jack Burns, boy abandoned by his father and raised by a mother tattoo artist who discovers that her mother thirty years has manipulated its childhood memories to serve its own interests. He starts searching for the truth, and goes in search of a father whose absence has been to influence his life: "Most of our memories are lying, like photos and postcards. The snow, untouched and pristine, the Christmas candles in the windows of houses where evil is being done to children is invisible and ignored. "
If Irving's novels remind us of the fragility of existence and the terrible burden of childhood injuries, they are mostly odes to life, friendship, love and warmth. The humor and absurdity continue to play their part in the tragedy, and you will not soon forget certain scenes of anthology, as the funeral Mass very special mother Jack, I'll meet you in where thirty tattooed biker intimately silence a zealous pastor who had to impose a sermon by ignoring the last wishes of the deceased ... And even after having seen terrible, nothing is ever final, as recalled by Mrs. Mc Quat (called the Grey Ghost) to little Jack Burns I'll meet you :
- "Because, except natural disasters, the role of victim chooses, "said the Grey Ghost."
If you have not read John Irving, you are very lucky. And if you know it, do not miss his last two novels, proof positive that he is aging, the best American novelist-wrestler does not lose his hand.
soon.
Gaëlle Nohant
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