Paul Auster citáty
Paul Auster
Datum narození: 3. únor 1947
Paul Benjamin Auster je americký spisovatel židovského původu. Píše romány, filmové scénáře, básně i eseje. Překládá rovněž z francouzštiny , ve Francii i studoval. Často využívá detektivní schéma či jiné populární žánry, témata jeho knih jsou však spíše existenciální. Láká ho i film, k nejznámějším patří jeho scénář k filmu Kouř či Vnitřní život Martina Frosta , který též sám režíroval. Roku 2006 získal Cenu prince Asturského. V roce 2008 byl hostem Pražského festivalu spisovatelů.
Citáty Paul Auster
„Vydat se na dráhu spisovatele není stejné rozhodnutí jako stát se lékařem nebo policistou. Spisovatel si svůj úděl nevybírá, je k němu předurčen. A jakmile se smíříte s tím, že se pro nic jiného, než pro psaní, nehodíte, buďte připraveni na dlouhou a trnitou cestu.“
Zdroj: Paul Auster na pwf.cz http://www.pwf.cz/archivy/autori/paul-auster/cz/
„Když jsem dokončil univerzitu, věděl jsem, že bych chtěl být spisovatelem. A když jsem pak - o tři a půl roku později - Paříž opouštěl, už jsem spisovatelem byl. Takže to byla doba, kdy se z, možná‘ stalo, ano.‘“
Zdroj: [Horák, Ondřej, Paul Auster: Muž ve tmě, Lidové noviny, 2009, květen, 2, 23]
„I didn't say I was afraid of dying, I answered, I said that I was afraid to get on a plane. There is a difference.“
— Paul Auster, kniha The Book of Illusions
David to Dr. Singh
The Book of Illusions (2002)
„If a tree falls in the forest and no one hears it fall, does it make a sound or not? Hector had read alot of books by then, he knew all the tricks and arguments of the philosophers. If someone makes a movie and no one sees it, does the movie exist or not?“
— Paul Auster, kniha The Book of Illusions
The Book of Illusions (2002)
„[G]overnments always need enemies, even when they're not at war. If you don't have a real enemy, you make one up and spread the word. It scares the population, and when the people are scared, they tend not to step out of line.“
— Paul Auster, kniha Oracle Night
Paul Auster, Oracle Night, New York: Henry Holt and Company, p. 168.
Oracle Night (2003)
„That's what makes his story so impossible, David. Because he's told me the truth. (Alma to David on Hector)“
— Paul Auster, kniha The Book of Illusions
The Book of Illusions (2002)
„April 1945. My unit was in Germany, and we were the ones who liberated Dachau. Thirty thousands breathing skeletons. You've seen the pictures, but the pictures don't tell you what it was like. You have to go there and smell it for yourself; you have to be there and touch it with your own hands. Human beings did it to human beings, and they did it with a clear conscience. That was the end of mankind […] I'm sure you've read the stories about how some of them couldn't stop eating. The starved ones. They'd thought about food for so long, they couldn't help it. They ate until their stomachs burst, and they died. Hundreds of them.“
— Paul Auster, kniha Oracle Night
Paul Auster, Oracle Night, New York: Henry Holt and Company, p. 92.
Oracle Night (2003)
„Men don't begin to live fully until their backs are against the wall.“
— Paul Auster, kniha The Book of Illusions
The Book of Illusions (2002)
„The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.“
— Paul Auster, The New York Trilogy
"The Locked Room", p. 294
The New York Trilogy (1987)
„For only the good doubt their own goodness, which is what makes them good in the first place. The bad know they are good, but the good know nothing. They spend their lives forgiving others, but they can't forgive themselves.“
Paul Auster, Man In The Dark, New York: Henry Holt and Company, p. 63.
Man In The Dark (2008)
„Every time my nose gushed blood, I felt like a little boy who'd wet his pants. I jumped out of the chair, pressed a handkerchief against my face, and hustled toward the nearest bathroom […] How red the blood looked against the whiteness of the porcelain sink, I thought. How vividly imagined that color was, how aesthetically shocking. The other fluids that came out of us were dull in comparison, the palest of squirts. Whitish spittle, milky semen, yellow pee, green-brown mucus. We excreted autumn and winter colors, but running invisibly through our veins, the very stuff that kept us alive, was the crimson of a mad artist—a red as brilliant as fresh paint.“
— Paul Auster, kniha Oracle Night
Paul Auster, Oracle Night, New York: Henry Holt and Company, pp. 41-42.
Oracle Night (2003)
