Введение
Американский писатель (род. 1959)
Дэниел Уоллес (род. 1959) – американский писатель. Наиболее известен своим романом "Большая рыба: роман мифических масштабов" (1998). Среди его других книг – "Рэй наоборот" и "Король арбузов". Его рассказы также публиковались в различных антологиях и журналах, включая "Лучшая фантастика и ужасы года".
Жизнь
Уоллес родился в Бирмингеме, штат Алабама, и у него три сестры. Он учился в Университете Эмори и Университете Северной Каролины в Чапел-Хилл, изучая английский язык и философию. Его первой работой была уборка клеток в качестве помощника ветеринара. Уоллес не закончил колледж до мая 2008 года, а вместо этого устроился на работу в торговую компанию в Нагое, Япония. В настоящее время он живет в Чапел-Хилле, Северная Каролина, с женой и сыном. Говоря о своем детстве, Уоллес отмечает: "Я был совершенно обычным во всем. Думаю, мое детство было самой неинтересной частью моей жизни". Однако он сообщает о наличии напряженности в его семье, о чем свидетельствует его заявление в одном из интервью:
<blockquote>My father wanted me to work with him in his company, an import/export firm, and to that end I lived in Japan for a couple of years. But it didn’t work out. It didn’t make me happy and the truth is I wasn’t that good at it. I wouldn’t have been a good businessman. I tried. So I quit – or, if he were alive and you could ask him, fired – and started writing. He wasn’t for it but then it’s hard to support a child in an endeavor for which he has shown absolutely no promise. My mother loved the idea of it because being a writer is such a romantic idea and because it hurt my father, and if he was hurt she was happy. A running motif in his works are glass eyes; Wallace has stated in numerous interviews (including the one published in the back of the paperback edition of Big Fish) that he collects glass eyes. He continued to live in Chapel Hill with his wife, Laura, a social worker, In a 2011 article for Pure Movies, he wrote about how absurd he found it that Big Fish was the book that was adapted into a film when all his others have clearer narrative structures. His other books include Ray in Reverse, The Watermelon King, and Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician. His short stories have been published in a number of anthologies and magazines, including The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Wallace believes that "art is a distillation of experience." He believes that "writing requires only a pen and paper, and not paint, brushes, canvases, nor expensive film or photographic equipment, so it’s seen as something ‘anyone can do.’"
"Мой отец хотел, чтобы я работал с ним в его компании – импортно-экспортной фирме, и с этой целью я несколько лет жил в Японии. Но ничего не вышло. Это не приносило мне счастья, да и, честно говоря, я не очень хорошо это делал. Я бы не стал хорошим бизнесменом. Я пытался. Поэтому я ушел – или, если бы он был жив, и вы могли бы его спросить, он бы меня уволил – и начал писать. Он был против этого, но трудно поддерживать ребенка в начинании, к которому у него совершенно нет склонностей. Моя мама любила эту идею, потому что быть писателем – это так романтично, и потому что это расстраивало моего отца, а если ему было больно, она была счастлива".
<blockquote>My father wanted me to work with him in his company, an import/export firm, and to that end I lived in Japan for a couple of years. But it didn’t work out. It didn’t make me happy and the truth is I wasn’t that good at it. I wouldn’t have been a good businessman. I tried. So I quit – or, if he were alive and you could ask him, fired – and started writing. He wasn’t for it but then it’s hard to support a child in an endeavor for which he has shown absolutely no promise. My mother loved the idea of it because being a writer is such a romantic idea and because it hurt my father, and if he was hurt she was happy. A running motif in his works are glass eyes; Wallace has stated in numerous interviews (including the one published in the back of the paperback edition of Big Fish) that he collects glass eyes. He continued to live in Chapel Hill with his wife, Laura, a social worker, In a 2011 article for Pure Movies, he wrote about how absurd he found it that Big Fish was the book that was adapted into a film when all his others have clearer narrative structures. His other books include Ray in Reverse, The Watermelon King, and Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician. His short stories have been published in a number of anthologies and magazines, including The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Wallace believes that "art is a distillation of experience." He believes that "writing requires only a pen and paper, and not paint, brushes, canvases, nor expensive film or photographic equipment, so it’s seen as something ‘anyone can do.’"
В его произведениях часто встречается мотив стеклянных глаз; Уоллес неоднократно заявлял в интервью (в том числе в интервью, опубликованном на обороте издания в мягкой обложке "Большой рыбы"), что он коллекционирует стеклянные глаза. В статье 2011 года для Pure Movies он написал о том, как абсурдно он считает, что именно "Большая рыба" была экранизирована, в то время как все его другие книги имеют более четкую нарративную структуру. Среди его других книг – "Рэй в обратном направлении", "Король арбузов" и "Мистер Себастьян и негритянский маг". Его рассказы публиковались во многих антологиях и журналах, включая "Лучшая фантастика и ужасы года". Уоллес верит, что "искусство – это дистилляция опыта". Он считает, что "для письма нужны только ручка и бумага, а не краски, кисти, холсты или дорогостоящая пленка и фотооборудование, поэтому это кажется чем-то, что может сделать каждый".
<blockquote>My father wanted me to work with him in his company, an import/export firm, and to that end I lived in Japan for a couple of years. But it didn’t work out. It didn’t make me happy and the truth is I wasn’t that good at it. I wouldn’t have been a good businessman. I tried. So I quit – or, if he were alive and you could ask him, fired – and started writing. He wasn’t for it but then it’s hard to support a child in an endeavor for which he has shown absolutely no promise. My mother loved the idea of it because being a writer is such a romantic idea and because it hurt my father, and if he was hurt she was happy. A running motif in his works are glass eyes; Wallace has stated in numerous interviews (including the one published in the back of the paperback edition of Big Fish) that he collects glass eyes. He continued to live in Chapel Hill with his wife, Laura, a social worker, In a 2011 article for Pure Movies, he wrote about how absurd he found it that Big Fish was the book that was adapted into a film when all his others have clearer narrative structures. His other books include Ray in Reverse, The Watermelon King, and Mr. Sebastian and the Negro Magician. His short stories have been published in a number of anthologies and magazines, including The Year's Best Fantasy and Horror. Wallace believes that "art is a distillation of experience." He believes that "writing requires only a pen and paper, and not paint, brushes, canvases, nor expensive film or photographic equipment, so it’s seen as something ‘anyone can do.’"