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Patrick James Rothfuss, né le 6 juin 1973 à Madison dans le Wisconsin, est un auteur américain de fantasy. Il est l'auteur de la trilogie Chronique du tueur de roi, qui fut repoussée par plusieurs maisons d'éditions avant que le premier tome, Le Nom du vent, ne soit publié en 2007 puis salué par la critique et fasse partie de la New York Times Best Seller list.

Le deuxième tome de sa série Chronique du tueur de roi, La Peur du sage, a été gratifié en juin 2012 du prix David Gemmell du meilleur roman de fantasy. Wikipedia  

✵ 6. juin 1973
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Le Nom du vent
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Patrick Rothfuss citations célèbres

“Viajé, amé, perdí, confié y me traicionaron…”

The Name of the Wind

“La plus remarquable des facultés de notre esprit est sans doute sa capacité à faire face à la douleur. Selon la pensée classique, l'esprit est doté de quatre portes, que chacun franchit selon la nécessité qui l'y pousse.
La première, c'est celle du sommeil. Le sommeil nous procure un abri loin du onde et de toutes ses souffrances. Le sommeil facilite la passage du temps, mettant à distance ce qui nous fait mal. Lorsqu'une personne est blessée, bien souvent, elle perd connaissance. De même, quelqu'un qui apprend une nouvelle bouleversante pourra s'évanouir. franchir cette première porte, c'est la façon dont l'esprit se protège de la douleur.
La deuxième porte est celle de l'oubli. Il est des blessures trop profondes pour guérir, du moins pour s'en rétablir promptement. De surcroît, nombre de souvenirs sont tout simplement trop douloureux et on ne peut en espérer aucun apaisement. Le vieux dicton selon lequel "le temps guérit tous les maux" est faux. Le temps guérit la plupart des maux. Le reste est dissimulé derrière cette porte.
La troisième porte est celle de la folie. Il y a des moments où 'esprit subit un tel choc qu'il se réfugie dans la démence. Bien qu'il semble difficile de pouvoir en tirer quelque bénéfice que ce soit, c'est pourtant le cas : il est des moments où la réalité n'est que souffrance et pour échapper à cette souffrance, l'esprit doit s'affranchir de la réalité.
La dernière porte est celle de la mort. L'ultime recours. Rien ne peut nous atteindre une fois que nous sommes morts, du moins c'est ce que l'on nous a dit.”

The Name of the Wind

Patrick Rothfuss Citations

“Les livres ne sont qu'un pauvre substitut à la compagnie féminine, mais ils sont plus faciles à trouver.”

Chronique Du Tueur de Roi - Premiere Journee, T1: Le Nom Du Vent

Patrick Rothfuss: Citations en anglais

“Half of seeming clever is keeping your mouth shut at the right times.”

Patrick Rothfuss livre La Peur du sage

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“Anyone can love a thing. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket.
But to love something. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.”

Patrick Rothfuss livre La Peur du sage

Source: The Wise Man's Fear (2011)
Contexte: We love what we love. Reason does not enter into it. In many ways, unwise love is the truest love. Anyone can love a thing because. That's as easy as putting a penny in your pocket. But to love something despite. To know the flaws and love them too. That is rare and pure and perfect.

“I just sat there thunderstruck. I realized that's exactly what I had been doing for over a decade with my story. I was writing heroic fantasy, while at the same time I was satirizing heroic fantasy.”

Interview with Fantasy Book Critic (25 May 2007)
Contexte: Anyway, I was listening to Beagle answer a question on the panel, he said something along the lines of, "I'd never want to write The Last Unicorn again. It was excruciatingly hard, because I was writing a faerie tale while at the same time writing a spoof of a faerie tale."
I just sat there thunderstruck. I realized that's exactly what I had been doing for over a decade with my story. I was writing heroic fantasy, while at the same time I was satirizing heroic fantasy.
While telling his story, Kvothe makes it clear that he's not the storybook hero legends make him out to be. But at the same time, the reader sees that he's a hero nonetheless. He's just a hero of a different sort.

“Knowing your own ignorance is the first step to enlightenment.”

Patrick Rothfuss livre La Peur du sage

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“To be so lovely and so lost. To be all answerful with all that knowing trapped inside. To be beautiful and broken.”

Patrick Rothfuss livre The Slow Regard of Silent Things

Source: The Slow Regard of Silent Things

“Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”

Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent

Variante: Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere
Source: The Name of the Wind (2007), Chapter 26, “Lanre Turned” (p. 203)
Contexte: “All stories are true,” Skarpi said. “But this one really happened, if that’s what you mean.” He took another slow drink, then smiled again, his bright eyes dancing. “More or less. You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way. Too much truth confuses the facts. Too much honesty makes you sound insincere.”

“There are three things all wise men fear: the sea in storm, a night with no moon, and the anger of a gentle man.”

Patrick Rothfuss livre La Peur du sage

Source: The Wise Man's Fear (2011), Chapter 43, “The Flickering Way” (p. 318)

“We understand how dangerous a mask can be. We all become what we pretend to be.”

Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent

Variante: We all become what we pretend to be.
Source: The Name of the Wind

“You have to be a bit of a liar to tell a story the right way.”

Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent

Source: The Name of the Wind

“Bones mend. Regret stays with you forever.”

Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent

Source: The Name of the Wind

“I've waited a long time to show these flowers how pretty you are.”

Patrick Rothfuss livre La Peur du sage

Source: The Wise Man's Fear

“The best lies about me are the onestold.”

Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent

Source: The Name of the Wind

“Congratulations. That was the stupidest thing I've ever seen. Ever.”

Patrick Rothfuss livre Le Nom du vent

Source: The Name of the Wind

“My point is that doing something like this takes more time that writing another shitty, predictable Lord of the Rings knockoff.”

On the progress of The Wise Man's Fear in "Concerning the Release of Book Two" (26 February 2009) http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2009/02/concerning-the-release-of-book-two/
Official site
Contexte: My book is different.
In case you hadn't noticed, the story I'm telling is a little different. It's a little shy on the Aristotelian unities. It doesn't follow the classic Hollywood three-act structure. It's not like a five-act Shakespearean play. It's not like a Harlequin romance.
So what *is* the structure then? Fuck if I know. That's part of what's taking me so long to figure out. As far as I can tell, my story is part autobiography, part hero's journey, part epic fantasy, part travelogue, part faerie tale, part coming of age story, part romance, part mystery, part metafictional-nested-story-frame-tale-something-or-other.
I am, quite frankly, making this up as I go. If I get it right, I get something like The Name of the Wind. Something that makes all of us happy.
But if I fuck it up, I'll end up with a confusing tangled mess of a story.
Now I'm not trying to claim that I'm unique in this. That I'm some lone pioneer mapping the uncharted storylands. Other authors do it too. My point is that doing something like this takes more time that writing another shitty, predictable Lord of the Rings knockoff.
Sometimes I think it would be nice to write a that sort of book. It would be nice to be able to use those well-established structures like a sort of recipe. A map. A paint-by-numbers kit.
It would be so much easier, and quicker. But it wouldn't be a better book. And it's not really the sort of book I want to write.

“As far as I can tell, my story is part autobiography, part hero's journey, part epic fantasy, part travelogue, part faerie tale, part coming of age story, part romance, part mystery, part metafictional-nested-story-frame-tale-something-or-other.
I am, quite frankly, making this up as I go.”

On the progress of The Wise Man's Fear in "Concerning the Release of Book Two" (26 February 2009) http://blog.patrickrothfuss.com/2009/02/concerning-the-release-of-book-two/
Official site
Contexte: My book is different.
In case you hadn't noticed, the story I'm telling is a little different. It's a little shy on the Aristotelian unities. It doesn't follow the classic Hollywood three-act structure. It's not like a five-act Shakespearean play. It's not like a Harlequin romance.
So what *is* the structure then? Fuck if I know. That's part of what's taking me so long to figure out. As far as I can tell, my story is part autobiography, part hero's journey, part epic fantasy, part travelogue, part faerie tale, part coming of age story, part romance, part mystery, part metafictional-nested-story-frame-tale-something-or-other.
I am, quite frankly, making this up as I go. If I get it right, I get something like The Name of the Wind. Something that makes all of us happy.
But if I fuck it up, I'll end up with a confusing tangled mess of a story.
Now I'm not trying to claim that I'm unique in this. That I'm some lone pioneer mapping the uncharted storylands. Other authors do it too. My point is that doing something like this takes more time that writing another shitty, predictable Lord of the Rings knockoff.
Sometimes I think it would be nice to write a that sort of book. It would be nice to be able to use those well-established structures like a sort of recipe. A map. A paint-by-numbers kit.
It would be so much easier, and quicker. But it wouldn't be a better book. And it's not really the sort of book I want to write.

“Don’t get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That’s a story. Handled properly, it’s more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.”

Interview in Publisher Weekly in 2011 http://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/authors/interviews/article/45944-exploring-the-edge-of-the-fantasy-map-pw-talks-with-patrick-rothfuss.html
Contexte: Fantasy is my favorite genre for reading and writing. We have more options than anyone else, and the best props and special effects. That means if you want to write a fantasy story with Norse gods, sentient robots, and telepathic dinosaurs, you can do just that. Want to throw in a vampire and a lesbian unicorn while you're at it? Go ahead. Nothing's off limits. But the endless possibility of the genre is a trap. It's easy to get distracted by the glittering props available to you and forget what you're supposed to be doing: telling a good story. Don’t get me wrong, magic is cool. But a nervous mother singing to her child at night while something moves quietly through the dark outside her house? That’s a story. Handled properly, it’s more dramatic than any apocalypse or goblin army could ever be.

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