Autor: Francisco X. Stork
Počet strán: 288
Jazyk, v ktorom som čítala: slovenský
Hodnotenie: ★★★★★
Tentokrát neostaneme iba pri recenzii - pripravila som si pre vás aj INTERVIEW priamo s autorom tejto skvelej knihy - Franciscom X. Storkom!
Marcelo Sandoval počuje hudbu, ktorú nikto iný počuť nemôže. Je to jeden z prejavov autistickej poruchy. No jeho otec tomu nikdy celkom neveril, ani hudbe, ani Marcelovej odlišnosti. Prinúti Marcela brigádovať cez leto v podateľni svojej právnickej firmy, aby ho zapojil do skutočného sveta. Tu Marcelo spoznáva Jasmine, ktorá ho učí rozumieť, čo je to súťaživosť, žiarlivosť, hnev i túžba. No až obrázok dievčaťa s polovicou tváre ho privedie do skutočného sveta plného trápenia, nespravodlivosti a naučí ho, ako s tým všetkým bojovať. Tento jedinečný príbeh je príbehom o láske, práve a nespravodlivosti, ale najmä oslavou hudby, ktorú počuje každý z nás vo svojom vnútri.
Marcelo Sandoval hears music no one else can hear--part of
the autism-like impairment no doctor has been able to identify--and he's always
attended a special school where his differences have been protected. But the
summer after his junior year, his father demands that Marcelo work in his law
firm's mailroom in order to experience "the real world."
He learns about competition and jealousy, anger and desire.
But it's a picture he finds in a file -- a picture of a girl with half a face
-- that truly connects him with the real world: its suffering, its injustice,
and what he can do to fight.
Táto kniha bola výnimočná. Skvelá.
Marcelo bol sympatický mladý chalan, ktorý bol síce iný, ale autor nám skvele
ukázal, že iný neznamená zlý. Práve naopak. Na začiatku knihy bol iba nevinný
chlapec, ktorý chce stráviť leto brigádovaním a staraním sa o poníky v škole
pre neobyčajné deti. Vedel by vám odrecitovať hociktorý výrok z Biblie, keby
ste ho o to požiadali.
Avšak jeho život sa úplne zmení, keď mu
otec oznámi, že musí pre jeho dobro brigádovať namiesto stajne v jeho
právnickej firme, aby sa naučil 'pravidlám skutočného sveta'. Avšak, osud toto nevymyslel nadarmo. V podateľni, kde má
Marcelo stráviť zvyšok leta, stratáva šarmantnú Jasmine. Sedemnásťročný Marcelo
je pre ňu iba autisctický chlapec, ku ktorému sa treba správať opatrne a držať
si odstup – no nakoniec si aj tak nájdu cestu k sebe.
Jediné, čo ma mrzí je, že autor
nenapísal pokračovanie. Inak jeho skvelé dielo nemôžem ohodnotiť inak ako
piatimi hviezdičkami a veriť, že sa Francisco Stork dostane k písaniu
pokračovania.
Many of you have probably heard
the term autism suffered by thousands of people and children in the world. Book Marcelo in the
real world showed me that autictic people may not be bad and should not be avoided.
This book was outstanding. Amazing. Marcelo was a nice young boy
who was indeed different, but the author has shown us, that different
doesn’t mean bad. At the beginning of
the book, he was just an innocent
boy who wants to spend
summer taking care of ponies
at school for unusual
children. He could recitate whichever
quote from Bible, if you’d asked him.
However, his life changes
completely when his father
says that he has for
his own good brigade
instead of stables in law firm to learn to
'the rules of the real world'.
In mailroom, where Marcelo is going to
spend his summer, he meets charming Jasmine. Seventeen year old Marcelo is only
a autistic boy to which she has to behave carefully – but in the end, they will
find their way to each other.
This book definitely belongs to ‘my
favorites’ shelf on Goodreads and I can’t give it less than 5 stars from 5.
Tak a teraz k rozhovoru! Francisco Stork, autor knihy Marcelo objavuje skutočný svet a mnohých iných, sa narodil v roku 1953 v Mexiku. Jeho rodina sa však presťahovala do USA. Má manželku, dve dospelé deti a doteraz napísal 5 románov. Je to veľmi milý, príjemný človek a mala som šťastie ho trochu spoznať cez tých niekoľko emailov, čo sme si vymenili. Tak hor sa na rozhovor!
1. Is there a message
in your novel that you want readers to grasp?
There’s no
one message that I would like readers to grasp. Different readers will take
different messages from the book. If there is anything I would like the reader
to feel close with Marcelo, as they would with a friend, because he is such a
good person.
2. What was the
hardest part of writing your book?
The hardest
part was “becoming” Marcelo and thinking like him and getting Francisco Stork
out of the way.
3. Do you have any advice
for young starting writers?
Only that
being a writer takes lots of practice just like any other art. You wouldn’t
expect someone to play Chopin the first time he sits at a piano but sometimes
we expect to write a great book the first time we sit down to write. Write
every day even if it’s just for fifteen minutes. Don’t worry too much about
what you are writing. Just practice.
4. Do you ever
experience writer's block? Any tips to
get over it?
Do you know
how it feels when it is Sunday night and you have a schoolwork to do for school
the next morning and you have to get up from the sofa where you are watching TV
and go to your desk? You know how hard that is, right? It’s the same for me
when I have to go to my desk to work on a novel. Once I get up and I start then
sometimes it becomes easier but sometimes it is still hard. Writer’s block
exists only if you decide not to get up from the sofa.
5. Are you planning
to write another book about Marcelo?
I’m happy
with the way Marcelo in the Real World ended. I can imagine what happens to
Marcelo after the book ends. Can you? I think good things happen to him.
6. Have you always
wanted to become a writer?
Yes, since
I was around 7. But I really didn’t know what that entailed. There’s a
difference between wanting to be a writer and wanting to write. In the first
case you’re more interested in lots of people liking you and praising you etc.,
In the second, it is the telling of a story that really motivates you. I think
I only started to want to write (as opposed to wanting to be a writer) when I
was about forty-five.
7. How about creating
your characters, e.g. Marcelo? How have you created him?
Was it in a “J.K. Rowling’s way” – sitting in
a café and BOOM, Marcelo was in your mind, just what he looks like?
I was writing a book about
Aurora, Marcelo’s mother. In that story, Aurora’s son dies and a year later she
discovers his journals. When I was writing about the journals, Marcelo’s voice
came to me and I decided to write about him. His voice was very powerful.
8. What is the hardest thing about
writing?
Getting off the sofa! (See
No. 4 above). Also the long period of
time that it takes me to write a book. Marcelo took me three years. The book
I’m finishing now that will come out in 2016 has taken me five years. Part of
it is because I have a day job as a lawyer and I can write on weekends but part
of it is the numerous revisions with my editor that we do on each book. It’s
hard to have patience and keep the enthusiasm for a book during all that time.
9. Do you have any favorite life quote(s)?
“I shall do all I can to
become useful”
-Vincent Van Gogh in a letter
to his brother Theo.
10. Does the part of a book you are
writing depend on your current mood?
No, I work from beginning of
the story to the end without skipping ahead. I try not to let mood affect my
ability to work. Work whatever the mood, if possible.
11. Does Marcelo have something in
common with you? Are you similar to him in some ways?
I think we are both religious
not so much in a “church” sense but in that we are interested in what mankind
has said about God throughout time and in what is important in all religions,
namely, the experience of something or someone greater than us.
12. Why do you write?
My way of being useful (See
no. 9 above). Also, I’m very miserable when I don’t.
13. Do you write on a
computer/dictate/typewriter…?
I write on a computer.
Sometimes I write a passage longhand in my journal before I type it. Writing
longhand allows me to express emotions better for some reason.
14. Do you sometimes read reviews on
the Internet? (I’ve always wondered if writers do this)
No, I don’t read any reviews.
Sometimes my editor will send me one from a newspaper or a journal, but I don’t
read reviews on Goodreads or Amazon or people’s blogs. People have a right to
say whatever they want to say about my books without worrying about the author.
15. Is there anything you would like to
add that I haven’t included?
Only that this is a very nice
interview and I’m very grateful for the people in Slovakia who have been kind
of enough to read my books.
Francisco bol nielenže tak milý, že mi poskytol rozhovor, ale dokonca mi poslal aj podpísanú knihu, záložky a pár drobností. Thank you!
