Post by account_disabled on Dec 30, 2023 4:56:14 GMT
In some cases it has almost become a mania, so much so that it makes me write apocalyptic stories. It all started – and hasn't finished yet – with watching the film The Road , inspired by the novel of the same name by Cormac McCarthy who, I confess, I didn't know at all at the time. The Road of Cormac McCarhty : the writing style of the novel captured me, kidnapped me in fact. That attention to detail, which makes the characters and the environment in which they move seem so close, those short sentences that punctuate the drama of life with a cadenced rhythm. And those metaphors and similes never out of place, always unique, as powerful as all of McCarthy's writing.
From that novel I started buying other books by the author and little by little, since then, I have read all his works. I don't know why the apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic genre – I tend to combine the two concepts – attract me so much, perhaps because I have a pessimistic vision of everything, because I like to show how things could get worse on our planet. The taste for full-bodied and profound stories I don't really like that genre that they call mainstream (non-genre fiction), and which perhaps should be more simply Special Data called fiction. I prefer reading science fiction, thrillers, adventures, westerns, mysteries, detective stories and noir, rather than everyday stories. However, every now and then I break up my genre readings with the mainstream. The fact of reading two books at a time, pairing a modern novel with a classic (and sometimes an essay), already leads me to read non-genre fiction. Edgar Lawrence Doctorow novels : yes, all of them. Doctorow, who passed away two years ago, has surprisingly powerful writing. I fell in love with it immediately.
I met the author with the novel The New York Waterworks , then moved on to the famous Billy Bathgate , the shocking Homer & Langley (based on a true event), the wonderful Ragtime , the disturbing The Book of Daniel and the nostalgic The World's Fair . Everyone left something behind, something that will remain forever. And I still have more novels by him to pick up and read. O Lost by Thomas Wolfe : masterpiece. This one word was my “review” on Goodreads. Another reading made after seeing the film Genius with Jude Law who played Wolfe and Colin Firth as the editor Max Perkins. Family saga, historical novel, in this book there is all the magmatic narrative of Thomas Wolfe, which like a raging river overwhelms the reader, flooding him with poetry and drama. Wolfe told about himself, his family, his short life, the world he knew. His writing was nourished by everything around him, transforming the visible into something unforgettable.
From that novel I started buying other books by the author and little by little, since then, I have read all his works. I don't know why the apocalyptic and post-apocalyptic genre – I tend to combine the two concepts – attract me so much, perhaps because I have a pessimistic vision of everything, because I like to show how things could get worse on our planet. The taste for full-bodied and profound stories I don't really like that genre that they call mainstream (non-genre fiction), and which perhaps should be more simply Special Data called fiction. I prefer reading science fiction, thrillers, adventures, westerns, mysteries, detective stories and noir, rather than everyday stories. However, every now and then I break up my genre readings with the mainstream. The fact of reading two books at a time, pairing a modern novel with a classic (and sometimes an essay), already leads me to read non-genre fiction. Edgar Lawrence Doctorow novels : yes, all of them. Doctorow, who passed away two years ago, has surprisingly powerful writing. I fell in love with it immediately.
I met the author with the novel The New York Waterworks , then moved on to the famous Billy Bathgate , the shocking Homer & Langley (based on a true event), the wonderful Ragtime , the disturbing The Book of Daniel and the nostalgic The World's Fair . Everyone left something behind, something that will remain forever. And I still have more novels by him to pick up and read. O Lost by Thomas Wolfe : masterpiece. This one word was my “review” on Goodreads. Another reading made after seeing the film Genius with Jude Law who played Wolfe and Colin Firth as the editor Max Perkins. Family saga, historical novel, in this book there is all the magmatic narrative of Thomas Wolfe, which like a raging river overwhelms the reader, flooding him with poetry and drama. Wolfe told about himself, his family, his short life, the world he knew. His writing was nourished by everything around him, transforming the visible into something unforgettable.