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Stoner, John Williams Interview

Title: Stoner

Author: John Williams

Publisher: Sun Dance

Year: 2010

Pages : 242

ISBN: 9788415019343

The first thing I do is admit that he knew neither this book nor its author, John Williams, until very kindly Dance sun sent him home to me some months ago. And the second thing I want do is just to thank this publisher for giving me the opportunity to discover an author and a work which I enjoyed very much.

Stoner is the title of the book and the name of its protagonist. William Stoner is a young gray, simple, sad, a lot man, that goes unnoticed, never gets into trouble and not hurt anyone. He lives with his parents in Missouri, which helps them work on the farm and the fields that feed the whole family. Obeying the advice of his father in 1910, aged 19, became a student of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Missouri. His idea is to study the four years of his career and return to the farm to continue helping his family.

But a very special and particular professor, Archer Sloane, gets in his way and completely change your plans, your life, present and especially future. Obeying Sloane, because it gives the feeling that Stoner can not say no, change the Agriculture for Literature, he received his doctorate and became a teacher.

not know if you like it or not, you know what you want, what you want, Stoner gets carried away, swept away by events. Some events marked first by the First World War and after the Second and even the English Civil War. Some events that will not only Stoner, but their only two friends, David Masters and Gordon Finch.

All he knows, the only thing that is clear is that I enjoy teaching, dealing with students, teaching and studying, researching, writing. But above all, Stoner is clear that the university enjoys a space and an environment familiar to them, nice, that help you feel safe and protected from everything out there, from all around the outside of University of Missouri. For Stoner college is a refuge, as is the home office where, surrounded by books, he is safe from his wife and daughter.

Stoner Edith falls madly in love on sight and without regard for his high social position and not know decides to marry her. However, their marriage falls apart from the first day, or perhaps more accurately, from the first night, and over the years, Stoner will be the victim of the war Edith brought against him, a war of attrition, full of slights, insults and attacks, even Stoner try to avoid them, you are affecting more and more.

As ever, Stoner looking for refuge in college to flee their personal and family problems without suspecting that there just find love, salvation, but also pain, failure, loss and heartbreak.

Stoner Because life is a continual agony, a succession of problems, fighting, fighting, fighting, pain, suffering and loss. And what hurts most of all this is how the protagonist of this novel does nothing to defend, not react, do not try to change your life, deal with his wife, his daughter Grace, their students or their main enemy in the University, Lomax, who, with ever more power and strength, try to make life miserable for Stoner.

Stoner is a novel, simple but not simple, just the opposite. She is frank, fascinating, honest, intense, vibrant and, above all, soulful. As we pass the pages, we are increasingly closer to its star and finally we see him as a friend or relative, someone known for many years and with whom we share life, good and bad, someone who causes us great love and great compassion, and even many times, sorry. Stoner suffer with it when we see suffering, because I admire, because we want and, above all, because his story is endearing, warm and beautiful.

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Care Santos, author of closed rooms

Care Santos was born in 1970 in Mataró (Barcelona), where he lives. He began writing with 8 years and always knew that would not do otherwise. At 14 she won her first writing contest and at 25 he published his first book of stories. has published 6 novels, 6 story books, 2 books of poetry and a number of novels for young people and children. In juvenile literature is one of the most widely read authors has been translated into German, French, Italian, Portuguese, Lithuanian and Korean. He was founder and president for eight years of the English Association of Young Writers.

currently teaches writing workshops, works as a literary critic for the newspaper El Mundo and spends the entire time he has left to take care of her three children, in the words of the author herself, are his best work. His latest novel, closed rooms, was released on 8 March.

- How and when did you know you wanted to be a writer?

"Always. I remember wanting something else. At age 10 I wrote my first novel.

- Why did you become a writer?

"I have thought many times and I have not very clear. For years I thought I started writing because I could not bear to life escape me and I needed to retain and out. Or write to retain what I love about life. Or to exorcise my demons. Or to invent a life less boring. Or to try to understand something. Writing always involves answering questions that do not know you had.

- Where seek and find inspiration?

-In anything. Even the flight of a fly is inspiring. The inspiration comes from within, never outside.

- Are you a maniac at the time of writing: you do it at the same time, same place, still some kind of ritual or else you just go with the inspiration, wherever you are?

"I have many rituals, more and more ... I write with music by Bach, with a lit candle on the desk, now in the morning, although I prefer the night, I isolate myself in a monastery to begin and finish my novels, I never read a novel as I write (but test or other gender) ...

- How would you define closed rooms?

"As the novel that has cost me more to write. While working on it, I often thought I had gotten into a big project that I came. I gave up for lost twice, and both started again. Now that I see published is a dream come true.

- Is there anything autobiographical in this novel?

"In all my novels are much autobiographical, but hidden under that mask and misleading kind of fiction, under which I am very sheltered. Only those who know me really well (very few) are able to find pieces of myself that is always in everything I write.

- What is the best and the worst you've heard of closed rooms?

-which is read in a weekend. Whereas almost 500 pages, is a great compliment.

- How do you come up with a story as historical but also current, which appears both fictional and real, real?

-I am interested in the past does not in itself, but seen from the present. And I am also concerned about the likelihood. The fiction must be believable. And some past is not without some real characters. So are there. While, yes, making clear what is real and what not.

- What is your favorite character or characters?

"I feel a predilection for the couple Rodolfo, Maria del Roser, I think are the most modern of the Lax family, but are also the biggest. I identify with the casual way see the world.

- What would you tell someone to read closed rooms?

"I have not very clear. It gives me bad to sell myself. I think a lot to say and at the end, I would not tell anything. Reading should never be imposed.

- What do you put into this story?

-The "thesis" of the novel is contained in its dedication: to the children, grandchildren and great grandchildren of my children, they will not know who I was. Sometimes rebuilding the recent past is an impossible task. This idea is the genesis of this novel and throughout the book.

- What has been the work of documentation?

-Comprehensive. A year of reading and archive. Very satisfactory and completely addictive, yes.

- And the writing?

"At times, very difficult. Other, very stimulating. When I got to unlock the history and the narrative voice, writing was a joy after another.

- What are you working on book project?

"I round an idea for another novel, but I let it sit a bit and use to document. In the documentation you realize sometimes if the idea is worth or not worth it, and in this case I have not yet discovered.

- What do you look for when reading?

-A-ask novelists like lovers, who know more than me, which surprised me, seduce me. And if you know more than me, at least it seems.

- What to write? Seeking

thrill, but not exclusively. I think that a novel must have a claim of style, crafted a story that aspires to some originality, some flesh and blood characters, believable. There are many things. I'm afraid I'm very self-demanding.

- What are your favorite writers?

- So many! The could be sorted by alphabetical order, if you say all the. Although I always end up going back to my header poets: Machado (Antonio), Guillén, Salinas ...

- What you find it easy to write things you know or go with the imagination?

-A mixture of two things: apply the imagination to what they already know.

- What has been your personal experience in publishing and, in general, in the literary and publishing world?

"I worked hard, but I have gone wrong. Like many people, I posted too soon. This is not a skill that can be done in haste, but this is learned later.

- How do you see the present and the future of English publishing market?

"I am optimistic. I think it reads more than ever. It publishes many good things. Internet has made our time in the golden age of reading.

- What about the coexistence of the book of paper and electronic?

"That is wonderful. And that will last many years.

- How is your relationship with the Internet, new technologies, blogs or social networking?

"I'm very active surfer and completely addicted. I keep a blog for years, I'm normal social networks. I find great windows that look out to the world.

This is the website of Care Santos and this his blog .

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Disappointing official adaptation (I never leave)

never leave me (2010) , adaptation of the acclaimed novel of the same title written in 2005 by Kazuo Ishiguro I do not think a good movie . Since I have not read the novel will not go into tedious and / or predictable comparisons, but I will say that from the outset, do not understand why, if the action part of a disturbing truth to remain hidden at all costs , if that same plausible and can really enhance the plot, why not take advantage of the movie properly? The worst of the disappointing experience that I can not reveal anything that key without ruining the experience for those who have not seen. Because they can not, I can not even mention two previous titles - apparently lower, which, however, operate a much better starting point very similar - because the mere mention says it all.



Years ago I read An Artist of the Floating World (1986) and I had a feeling like that now with the film: the narrative thread of a seemingly distant and strange they are dropped or glimpse some transcendental issues, of those who are supposed to make you think. From what little I could read before entering the room any text failed to mention the wonderful treatment of all these things did the writer (Alex Garland, writer and personal friend of Ishiguro), his skill at capturing feelings when faced with extreme situations . Although I think that has been more concerned to obtain the approval of the author (who incidentally also works in production) about the accuracy of adaptation that the end result. I must be dead inside, because all I got clear was a succession of moments allegedly expressed much more intense than what they meant. Maybe I'm unable to drop to levels that require introspection Ishiguro's stories, but I certainly do not feel there was something that escaped me, quite the contrary : a supplement of information that the images became more than just a vehicle of expression of individual feelings partially set, or at least a narrative structure that gives shape to a story barely hints.

I've said before and I never tire of repeating cinematic storytelling has a limitation to the abstraction that makes the composition of certain accounts that require more than just an exhibition of situations. In the film must be capable of, through specific scenes, know how to lead the viewer into universal feelings and ideas it is impossible to show images without resorting to risky or strange symbolism turns formal. No is an impossible task, as there are filmmakers who have jumped without a net and they went well ( Wenders, Fellini ), others not so well ( Pasolini, Erice ) but that is certain is that without abandoning the classic style of narration, without introducing any element of intrigue beyond feelings without exploiting the obvious benefits of original literary, it is clear that not get those who have not read the book interested in the hidden and untapped drama gripping the triangle protagonist.