Post by account_disabled on Jan 5, 2024 23:28:12 GMT -6
When Kristian Bala, a thirty-one-year-old Pole, wrote the postmodern novel Amok - defined by his father as a masterpiece and by a friend of his as "rubbish" - he did not imagine that a meticulous and skilled investigator from Wroclaw would find in those pages elements in common with the murder of Dariusz Janiszewski and that a few years later he would even manage to nail him for that crime, which earned Bala a 25-year sentence. Unless you speak Polish, don't look for that novel. It has never been translated into Italian, much less into English. However, you can read David Grann's book The Demon of Sherlock Holmes , which collects a series of journalistic stories, each more exciting than the other, such as True Crime , where Grann retraces the story of Janiszewski's murder.
Write to tell about yourself How much of you is there in the stories you write? Which and how many elements have you inserted, consciously or unconsciously, into your stories and novels? If it is true that through the blog we tell about ourselves, then it is equally true that through our literary works we tell part of ourselves. Chtulhu and Suttree Special Data Lovecraft claimed that many of his stories were his night terrors, but in that case there was an a priori declaration by the author: here, now you are reading what I dreamed last night. Suttree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Cormac McCarthy. But how much of the author is there in that story? And how much of McCarthy is there in his other novels? Literary kleptomania Bala himself admitted that his novel contained something of his own, giving the excuse that any author would do so. Ultimately, the writer takes wherever there is to take, he is a gatherer, as the first hominids were, but instead of gathering fruit, the writer grasps ideas, ideas, facts, thoughts, images, sentences and words, sensations, emotions.
Here the writer's work is a continuous stealing here and there, but they are involuntary, often unconscious thefts, it is a congenital kleptomania tolerated by the law. Do you really think that stories write themselves? Do you really think that a person can make up a story out of nothing? It's impossible. A story is made of ingredients, like a cake: where does the writer get the ingredients from if not from what he sees, hears, thinks, experiences? One's own experience is the fundamental ingredient of a story, as flour is of bread. A question of empathy The first person to have to feel empathy for the characters is the author: otherwise how can we hope that the readers will succeed? The two things are connected for me: if a deep bond is born between us and the characters, the result will be three-dimensional, real and realistic, credible characters.
Write to tell about yourself How much of you is there in the stories you write? Which and how many elements have you inserted, consciously or unconsciously, into your stories and novels? If it is true that through the blog we tell about ourselves, then it is equally true that through our literary works we tell part of ourselves. Chtulhu and Suttree Special Data Lovecraft claimed that many of his stories were his night terrors, but in that case there was an a priori declaration by the author: here, now you are reading what I dreamed last night. Suttree is a semi-autobiographical novel by Cormac McCarthy. But how much of the author is there in that story? And how much of McCarthy is there in his other novels? Literary kleptomania Bala himself admitted that his novel contained something of his own, giving the excuse that any author would do so. Ultimately, the writer takes wherever there is to take, he is a gatherer, as the first hominids were, but instead of gathering fruit, the writer grasps ideas, ideas, facts, thoughts, images, sentences and words, sensations, emotions.
Here the writer's work is a continuous stealing here and there, but they are involuntary, often unconscious thefts, it is a congenital kleptomania tolerated by the law. Do you really think that stories write themselves? Do you really think that a person can make up a story out of nothing? It's impossible. A story is made of ingredients, like a cake: where does the writer get the ingredients from if not from what he sees, hears, thinks, experiences? One's own experience is the fundamental ingredient of a story, as flour is of bread. A question of empathy The first person to have to feel empathy for the characters is the author: otherwise how can we hope that the readers will succeed? The two things are connected for me: if a deep bond is born between us and the characters, the result will be three-dimensional, real and realistic, credible characters.