Interviewed by David Hayman, David Michaelis, George Plimpton, Richard Rhodes
“I had a friend who was a heavy drinker. If somebody asked him if he’d been drunk the night before, he would always answer offhandedly, “Oh, I imagine.”
“My books are being thrown out of school libraries all over the country—because they’re supposedly obscene. I’ve seen letters to small-town newspapers that put Slaughterhouse Five in the same class with Deep Throat and Hustler magazine. How could anybody masturbate to Slaughterhouse Five?”
“If you make people laugh or cry about little black marks on sheets of white paper, what is that but a practical joke? All the great story lines are great practical jokes that people fall for over and over again.”
„There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.”
Restul, aici: Paris Review – The Art of Fiction No. 64, Kurt Vonnegut.
Enjoy!
tocmai citeam următoare chestie: „Marile opere se influenţează reciproc. desigur, putem arăta cât de mult Cervantes l-a influenţat pe Kafka. Dar putem spune că şi Kafka l-a influenţat pe Cervantes. Dacă-l citesc pe Kafka înainte de a-l citi pe Cervantes, Kafka va modifica, prin mine şi fără ştirea mea, modul în care citesc Don Quijote”. jean-claude carrière
jean-claude carrière e un băieţel foarte inteligent!
Hmm, Kilgore Trout îşi publica poveştile SF în reviste porno. În Breakfast of Champions există un desen reprezentând o găoază şi enumeră dimensiunile organelor genitale a majoriăţii personajelor de sex masculin. Cu toate astea, nu-i o carte cu nimic mai obscenă decât biblia.
Mă duc să citesc God Bless You, Mr. Rosewater acum. Autorul preferat al lui Eliot Rosewater e Kilgore Trout.
Oh and the twerp thing. Also found in Breakfast of Champions.