"Birth is a mistake
we seek to correct
for life"
Allocate a post to 'author of the novel seems to me having to deal with a particular personality at least.
in delineating the human figure and lively take Commercial inspired by the Author Profile built by Antonio Monda, commissioned by the newspaper page to the Republic on 24 May 2009.
"The first thing you say when you meet him is the 'correct pronunciation of his surname: pòlanik.
gaze hides the pain in' irreverence and smile.
He can be friendly and alternates long periods of silence to tell endless: you lets take a torrential rush of flavor and thrilled to see the look of the interlocutor in the face of stories too absurd to be invented.
When the festival attended Capri literary conversations, explained that her favorite film adaptation of all time was The Haunting, based on the novel by Shirley Jackson
"The black and white version of 1964," he clarified, "directed by Robert Wise, not that horrible color of 1999."
"Few films such as the Wise have managed to capture the spirit of a terrific novel.
I repeat every time I have occasion to speak in public, and for this I was rewarded one day I received it a gift from his daughter Shirley Jackson, accompanied by a long letter. thanking me for what I did for the mother, and she gave me her ashes, explaining that it was right that I had to have them.
I hold still with me, and it is not the only gift of this kind that I have received. "
However, to know him well, you can guess that it is never a provocation end in itself, but something deep and excruciating, which has to do with his personal history.
His gaze on the scandalous world tends to deny the 'essence of the concept of scandal and hides a cathartic yearning.
Palahniuk boasts indifference when she asks the audience: "What is worse, the 'hell or nothing?".
or variations such as "If you could choose between being the worst enemy of God or anything, what would you choose?".
But his tragic and shocking story begins long ago, when still a child, he learned from his father that his grandfather was shot and her grandmother.
The father had witnessed the scene and was never able to figure out if it was jealousy, of madness, or both.
the rest mattered little. Palahniuk
Many years later he tried to exorcise his father's revelation in the book consolation prize.
still says: "I can not believe that my parents continue to bear with my brothers on holiday in the grandparents' house in Idaho.
How perverse is that? And my mother put me to sleep in the room where it had occurred on crime.
L 's only comment was: "I hate to leave you here after you turn off the light."
The story of her trauma does not end here.
few years later, the father was found in bed with a woman from her husband.
L 'betrayed man killed them both, shattered corpses and burned them. None of the brothers
Palahniuk bring himself to go to recognize the body, and it is up to Chuck to identify the remains of his father.
began to exorcise the tragedy with new stories of more extreme, reaching to say that "birth is a mistake to try to correct all my life."
Even now, which has become the author of best sellers sold all over the world, live their relationship with the confusing literature with a gap, which is the 'opposite of snobbery.
became a writer by chance, as a child he had never thought of.
She loved crafts and now it says that time: "I was a mechanic and I was bored deeply.
The first What I wrote was a manual on how to repair a truck.
With the little money I earned I was able to buy a house.
I had no television, and when I bought it I realized that I did not receive the signal.
decided to give it up, as I gave up everything else except the books.
And reading I discovered that I could not find anything that interests me, that spoke of stories and feelings that I belonged.
I decided that I would write it. "
But it was not an immediate decision: Palahniuk for a long time he worked as a volunteer in public dormitories with great self-denial and offered his assistance to the terminally ill.
But then, of which he speaks little, almost represents a space too intimate and different, he stopped when he died, a patient who was very attached.
He began to attend courses in creative writing, through which said one of the key matches of his life: "I owe Tom Spanbauer 's encouragement to not be afraid to express things more terrible.
These things exist, and are in of us as evil. "
teachings stem from this fascinating and frightening novels such as Fight Club, Choke and Invisible Monsters, which theorizes that "what God does is kill us when we get boring. So we must never, ever be boring."
not have any reluctance to admit that they want to shock the public.
But before he explains, "I want to shock myself and see how far I can go.
I want to bring the stories to 'extreme and I'm still convinced of not having done enough.
I feel I need to make greater use of the' imagination."
He went on to not have a TV for many years, and only recently has bought one, but rarely see the programs, committed to the principle expressed in Fight Club: "The things you own end up owning".
But his passion is the cinema: "I totally disagree with those who think that this is a form of 'art below: rather the form of' dominant expression of the twentieth century and still has much to offer.
I think he cannibalizzato la letteratura e non sono tra coloro che ne piangono".
Ha seguito da vicino gli adattamenti di Fight Club e Soffocare e i suoi gusti sono assolutamente ecclettici: " A me interessa che le storie funzionino e che attraverso personaggi ben definiti siano trasmesse delle emozioni forti.
Non riesco a capire lo stupore di fronte alle mie scelte.
Il conformismo non è nient' altro che una forma di ignoranza e di paura".
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