Tom Clancy
Jako gwniarz zaczytywaam si w jego powieciach i w caej tej ekipie od globalnych intryg: Clancy, Forsyth, Ludlum, Cussler, paru innych. Moe dlatego, e prawdziwa zimna wojna skoczya si, zanim zdyem dorosn, a wiat przed 11 wrzenia by rozleniwiony jak kot po obiedzie.
Pokolenie przede mn roso na science fiction - Lem, Strugaccy, Aldiss. Pokolenie po mnie na magii Harrego Pottera. Nie zaapaam si ani na jedno, ani na drugie: na Pirxa za mody, na Pottera za stary. Zostay mi protokoy CIA i wojna wywiadw w wersji instant.
Dzi mam prawie trzy razy wicej lat na karku i wracam do tamtych ksiek jak do starego munduru. Ale nie po nostalgi, tylko po bilans. Clancy jest pierwszym na licie. Dlaczego A bo tak.
Clancy pisa precyzyjnie, mechanicznie, metodologicznie. Jego sia nie leaa w stylu, lecz w iluzji kompetencji: w przekonaniu czytelnika, e oto zerka za kurtyn Pentagonu, e on widzi co dzieje si za scen globalnego teatru.
W kategoriach czysto literackich - to rzemioso solidne jak stalowe kowado: cikie, trwae, zupenie pozbawione finezji.
W kategoriach gatunkowych - mistrz technothrillera, inynier emocji niskiego napicia, perfekcyjny w researchu (niekiedy maniakalnie drobiazgowy).
W kategoriach kulturowych - twrca mitu amerykaskiej omnipotencji militarnej, machina propagandowa udajca powie.
Czy by wic wielkim pisarzem
Nie.
Bo to, co oferowa Clancy, nie byo realizmem, lecz fantazj kontroli. Tworzy poczucie, e wiat ma struktur, logik i protok - i wanie to placebo wiedzy dawao moc. adnych przepaci psychologicznych, adnych pkni, adnego ryzyka odsonicia siebie. wiat jest grony, ale przewidywalny. Dobro i zo s rozpoznawalne.
Pikny jzyk wymaga odwagi, bo moe poruszy, rozci, odsoni. Clancy niczego nie odsania. Oferowa emocje niskiego ryzyka: ekscytacj, napicie, triumf wiedzy i determinacji. Nigdy wstyd, al, zaamanie czy bl.
To literatura dla tych, ktrzy chc czu - ale tak nie za mocno.
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As much as I love books, there is nothing natural about reading.
The nature of books stems from limitation - it was invented as a way to preserve knowledge instead of having to rely on conversion.
However, the process of book writing has a fundamental issue. It is not an adaptable form of knowledge - no matter how good the authors are they will suffer from burden of knowledge, no matter how logical they structured it it still won't make sense to some people because everyone learns differently and the more complex the idea, the more exasperate the readers.
Whilst some people enjoy reading as a mental exercise or entertainment, a lot of people read to learn. The tedious steps of having the author to first accumulate and translate the knowledge, then the reader to translate and absorb means there are at least two points of failure (in translation).
And then the publishing industry imposing copyright and word count further complicated the matter.
Books are neither posh nor effective at articulating any ideas if anything we should celebrate the idea that we finally have the technology to translate a piece of information into a language form that the readers desire.
If you are not convinced, look up the cockney bible. Before the technology we have already tried.
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I do so love writing letters. Wish I could do it for a living.
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Illustration by Bernie Wrightson for Frankenstein Book by Mary Shelley (1983)
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