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Junot Díaz est un écrivain américain originaire de République dominicaine.

Il vit aux États-Unis depuis son arrivée dans le New Jersey avec ses parents, à l'âge de six ans. L'œuvre de Díaz est marquée par le dualisme de l'expérience de l'immigration.

Auteur de nouvelles publiées dans divers journaux et magazines dont le New Yorker et regroupées dans le recueil Los boys édité en français dans la collection 10/18, il publie en 2007 son premier roman The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, récompensé en 2008 par le National Book Critics Circle Award et le prix Pulitzer de la Fiction, et publié en 2009 aux éditions Plon sous le titre La Brève et Merveilleuse Vie d'Oscar Wao. Wikipedia  

✵ 31. décembre 1968   •   Autres noms جونو دیاز
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“Que hombre.)”

Junot Díaz livre La Brève et Merveilleuse Vie d'Oscar Wao

The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

Junot Díaz: Citations en anglais

“Ybon was the one who suggested calling the wait something else. Yeah, like what? Maybe, she said, you could call it life.”

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Junot Díaz livre La Brève et Merveilleuse Vie d'Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Clavo saca clavo.
Nothing sacas nothing, you reply. No one will ever be like her.”

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Junot Díaz livre This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

“She had reason to doubt him; he was real good at planning but real bad at doing.”

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Junot Díaz livre Drown

Source: Drown

“The beauty! The beauty!”

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Source: La breve y maravillosa vida de Óscar Wao

“The half life of love is forever.”

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Junot Díaz livre This Is How You Lose Her

Variante: The half-life of love is forever.
Source: This Is How You Lose Her

“Wondering aloud, If we were orcs, wouldn't we, at a racial level, ourselves to look like elves?”

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Junot Díaz livre La Brève et Merveilleuse Vie d'Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“Her last painting was of you, slouching against the front door: only your drowning I-had-a-lousy-Third-World-childhood-and-all-I-got-was-this-attitude eyes recognizable.”

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Junot Díaz livre This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

“I couldn't help it. I tried to keep it down but it just flooded through all my quiet spaces. It was a message more than a feeling, a message that tolled like a bell: change, change, change.”

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Junot Díaz livre La Brève et Merveilleuse Vie d'Oscar Wao

Source: The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao

“I put my hand on her knee. I just wish you'd say you love me.”

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Junot Díaz livre This Is How You Lose Her

Source: This Is How You Lose Her

“If you think learning salsa is your future, you’re going to be pretty insufferable in salsa classes.”

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Lunch with the FT interview (July 2014) https://www.ft.com/content/a438f98e-01f4-11e4-bb71-00144feab7de

“I grew up in a world, [a] very New Jersey, American, Dominican, immigrant, African-American, Latino world. And, you know, I went to school and it was basically the same. I went to college; it was basically the same, where largely I wasn't really encouraged to imagine women as fully human. I was in fact pretty much — by the larger culture, by the local culture, by people around me, by people on TV — encouraged to imagine women as something slightly inferior to men. And so I think that a lot of guys, part of our journey is wrestling with, coming to face, our limited imagina[tion] and growing in a way that allows us not only to imagine women as fully human, but to imagine the things that we do to women — that we often do blithely, without thinking, we just sort of shrug off — as actually deeply troubling and as hurting another human being. And this seems like the simplest thing. A lot of people are like, 'Really, that's like a huge leap of knowledge, of the imagination?”

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But for a lot of guys, that is.
NPR interview (September 2012) http://www.npr.org/2012/09/11/160252399/fidelity-in-fiction-junot-diaz-deconstructs-a-cheater

“Our visions of an immigrant community and an immigrant experience are highly moralistic. I feel like our reality is William Gibson meets Toni Morrison, yet the way we’re interpreting the morality of immigrants is Chaucer.”

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Lunch with the FT interview (July 2014) https://www.ft.com/content/a438f98e-01f4-11e4-bb71-00144feab7de

“We live in a patriarchal imaginary where men cannot conceptualise women as fully human. What’s really important is how this shit resides in us, how this just lives in us, man, even if we’re the good guy – it should give a motherfucker pause.”

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Lunch with the FT interview (July 2014) https://www.ft.com/content/a438f98e-01f4-11e4-bb71-00144feab7de

“This life takes a lot more courage than I ever gave it credit for. When I was growing up around here I was always fantasizing heroic shit without realizing that what was shaping up was going to be the greatest heroic adventure of them all: trying to live and be a decent human being. That shit takes more courage than I ever had.”

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Profile in Playboy magazine (August 2013) http://www.playboy.com/articles/junot-diaz-brief-history