Frasi di Michel Faber

Michel Faber è uno scrittore olandese.

Nato nei Paesi Bassi, nel 1967 la sua famiglia si trasferì in Australia, dove restò fino al 1992, quando si trasferì in Scozia; qui ha vissuto in una stazione ferroviaria vittoriana con la moglie Eva, sua editor "non ufficiale", fino alla morte di lei per una rara forma di cancro alle ossa, nel luglio 2014.

Faber ha debuttato letterariamente con una raccolta di racconti, vincitori di numerosi premi, intitolata Some Rain Must Fall, pubblicata nel 1999. Il suo primo romanzo, Sotto la pelle è stato un successo internazionale. Nel 2002, dopo una gestazione durata 21 anni, è uscito Il petalo cremisi e il bianco, la storia postmoderna e dickensiana di una prostituta nella Londra Vittoriana. Il libro è diventato un bestseller internazionale. I suoi libri sono pubblicati in Italia da Einaudi e Rizzoli.

Nel 2014 esce The Book Of Strange New Things e, contestualmente, l'autore annuncia che questo sarà probabilmente il suo ultimo romanzo, ma continuerà a scrivere non-fiction e poesie "sul dolore e sulla perdita".

✵ 13. Aprile 1960
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Michel Faber Frasi e Citazioni

Michel Faber: Frasi in inglese

“Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.”

Michel Faber libro The Crimson Petal and the White

First lines, Ch. 1
The Crimson Petal and the White (2002)
Contesto: Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them. This city I am bringing you to is vast and intricate, and you have not been here before. You may imagine, from other stories you've read, that you know it well, but those stories flattered you, welcoming you as a friend, treating you as if you belonged. The truth is that you are an alien from another time and place altogether.

“What you lack is the right connections, and that is what I've brought you here to make: connections.”

Michel Faber libro The Crimson Petal and the White

Origine: The Crimson Petal and the White (2002), Ch. 1
Contesto: What you lack is the right connections, and that is what I've brought you here to make: connections. A person who is worth nothing must introduce you to a person worth next-to-nothing, and that person to another, and so on and so forth until finally you can step across the threshold, almost one of the family.

“Trust is absolutely precious, and its betrayal horrifies me. I do want readers to trust me. And yet I don't want to offer them a safe, predictable ride.”

Interview in 3 A.M Magazine (2002) http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/2002_sep/interview_michel_faber.html
Contesto: Trust is absolutely precious, and its betrayal horrifies me. I do want readers to trust me. And yet I don't want to offer them a safe, predictable ride. The literary scene seems to be divided between "trustworthy" authors who give their fans a Big Mac that's totally unchallenging, and more ambitious authors who treat their readers with high-handed indifference. I want to earn the reader's trust while remaining unpredictable. I take the reader to some dark and emotionally uncomfortable places but never just for the sake of it. And I do care about how you're feeling on your journey. Many people have remarked on how readable and engaging they found The Crimson Petal despite its great length. That wasn't accidental. I thought very carefully about how to keep the reader intimate and awake.

“Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.”

Michel Faber libro The Crimson Petal and the White

Origine: The Crimson Petal and the White

“Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.”

Michel Faber libro The Book of Strange New Things

Origine: The Book of Strange New Things

“Shared suffering, she’d found, was no guarantee of intimacy.”

Michel Faber libro Under the Skin

Origine: Under the Skin

“History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.”

Michel Faber libro The Crimson Petal and the White

Origine: The Crimson Petal and the White

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