Amy Tan cytaty

Amy Ruth Tan – współczesna pisarka amerykańska.

Wychowała się w San Francisco w rodzinie chińskich emigrantów. Jej rodzice – John Yuehhan Tan, pastor Kościoła Baptystów oraz Daisy Tan, pielęgniarka – wyjechali z Chin do USA w 1949, gdy władzę przejęli komuniści. Kiedy Amy miała czternaście lat, ojciec i brat w tym samym roku umarli na guza mózgu. W 1968 Amy wyjechała z matką i bratem do Szwajcarii, gdzie ukończyła szkołę średnią. Rok później rodzina Tan powróciła do Kalifornii. Amy Tan studiowała na uniwersytecie stanowym San Jose, gdzie ukończyła językoznawstwo w 1974. W tym samym roku poślubiła Louisa DeMattei. Po ukończeniu studiów pracowała kolejno jako konsultant w ośrodku Alameda County Association dla umysłowo opóźnionych, reporter, edytor, wreszcie odkryła swoje prawdziwe powołanie – zaczęła pisać powieści. To, co początkowo było formą terapii, próbą walki z depresją, stało się sposobem na życie.

W 1989 Amy Tan zadebiutowała powieścią Klub Radości i Szczęścia , która bardzo szybko stała się światowym bestsellerem. W 1991 ukazała się jej druga książka Żona kuchennego boga , a następnie w 1996 Sto tajemnych zmysłów . W marcu 2001 została wydana czwarta powieść Tan Córka nastawiacza kości .

Autorka buduje swoje opowieści czepiąc wiele z kontrastu pomiędzy amerykańskim światopoglądem a tradycyjną kulturą chińską, często przeplatając je obrazami z życia Chin w czasach poprzedzających rewolucję komunistyczną. Główne motywy powieści Tan koncentrują się na relacjach matka-córka i poszukiwaniu własnej tożsamości kulturowej. Jednak kluczową wartością jej książek okazuje się ich ogólnoludzki wymiar. Niezależnie od czasów, w jakich przyszło nam żyć, kontekstu kulturowego, wszyscy usiłujemy ustalić nasze miejsce w zagmatwanej rzeczywistości. Być może dlatego w powieściach Tan każdy może odnaleźć coś na swój sposób intrygującego.

W Polsce wszystkie powieści Amy Tan ukazały się do tej pory nakładem wydawnictwa Prószyński i S-ka. Wikipedia  

✵ 19. Luty 1952   •   Natępne imiona Amy Tanová
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Amy Tan słynne cytaty

„Namiętność z czasem słabnie, a różnice pozostają.”

Córka nastawiacza kości

„Można być dumnym z tego, co się co dzień robi (…). Ale nie można gardzić tym, co mamy od urodzenia.”

Postać: Siostra Yu
Córka nastawiacza kości

„Wyobraźnia karmi się wspomnieniami, a w mojej aż się roi od koszmarów.”

Źródło: „Zwierciadło”, 2007, nr 3/1925

Amy Tan cytaty

„Pisarz pisze i ten proces – nie sława czy fortuna – jest najważniejszy.”

Źródło: „Zwierciadło”, 2007, nr 3/1925

„Człowiek powinien wiedzieć, jak coś się zaczęło. Początek prowadzi zwykle do określonego końca.”

Postać: Droga Ciocia
Córka nastawiacza kości

„Nie sposób zredukować życia do jednozdaniowych maksym.”

Córka nastawiacza kości

„Wszystko jest możliwe, dopóki dzieje się dla dobra świata.”

Córka nastawiacza kości

„Nie można być artystą, jeśli praca przychodzi bez wysiłku.”

Córka nastawiacza kości

Amy Tan: Cytaty po angielsku

“That was how dishonesty and betrayal started, not in big lies but in small secrets.”

Amy Tan książka The Bonesetter's Daughter

Źródło: The Bonesetter's Daughter

“I had on a beautiful red dress, but what I saw was even more valuable. I was strong. I was pure. I had genuine thoughts inside that no one could see, that no one could ever take away from me. I was like the wind.
-Lindo”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

American Acheivement interview (1996)
Źródło: The Joy Luck Club
Kontekst: Reading for me was a refuge. I could escape from everything that was miserable in my life and I could be anyone I wanted to be in a story, through a character. It was almost sinful how much I liked it. That's how I felt about it. If my parents knew how much I loved it, I thought they would take it away from me. I think I was also blessed with a very wild imagination because I can remember, when I was at an age before I could read, that I could imagine things that weren't real and whatever my imagination saw is what I actually saw. Some people would say that was psychosis but I prefer to say it was the beginning of a writer's imagination. If I believed that insects had eyes and mouths and noses and could talk, that's what they did. If I thought I could see devils dancing out of the ground, that's what I saw. If I thought lightning had eyes and would follow me and strike me down, that's what would happen. And I think I needed an outlet for all that imagination, so I found it in books.

“Writing what you wished was the most dangerous form of wishful thinking.”

Amy Tan książka The Bonesetter's Daughter

Źródło: The Bonesetter's Daughter

“Chance is the first step you take, luck is what comes afterward.”

Amy Tan The Kitchen God's Wife

Źródło: The Kitchen God's Wife

“Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Wariant: Everyone must dream. We dream to give ourselves hope. To stop dreaming — well, that’s like saying you can never change your fate. Isn’t that true?
Źródło: The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)

“Yin people is the term Kwan uses, because "ghosts" is politically incorrect.”

SALON Interview (1995)
Kontekst: I've long thought about how life is influenced by death, how it influences what you believe in and what you look for. Yes, I think I was pushed in a way to write this book by certain spirits — the yin people — in my life. They've always been there, I wouldn't say to help, but to kick me in the ass to write.... Yin people is the term Kwan uses, because "ghosts" is politically incorrect. People have such terrible assumptions about ghosts — you know, phantoms that haunt you, that make you scared, that turn the house upside down. Yin people are not in our living presence but are around, and kind of guide you to insights. Like in Las Vegas when the bells go off, telling you you've hit the jackpot. Yin people ring the bells, saying, "Pay attention." And you say, "Oh, I see now." Yet I'm a fairly skeptical person. I'm educated, I'm reasonably sane, and I know that this subject is fodder for ridicule.... To write the book, I had to put that aside. As with any book. I go through the anxiety, "What will people think of me for writing something like this?" But ultimately, I have to write what I have to write about, including the question of life continuing beyond our ordinary senses.

“I have always known a thing before it happens.”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

The Joy Luck Club (1989), Ch. 14, pg. 243

“My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes.”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

The Hundred Secret Senses (1995)
Kontekst: My sister Kwan believes she has yin eyes. She sees those who have died and now dwell in the World of Yin, ghosts who leave the mists just to visit her kitchen on Balboa Street in San Francisco.
"Libby-ah," she'll say to me. "Guess who I see yesterday, you guess." And I don't have to guess that she's talking about someone dead.

“I don't see myself, for example, writing about cultural dichotomies, but about human connections. All of us go through angst and identity crises. And even when you write in a specific context, you still tap into that subtext of emotions that we all feel about love and hope, and mothers and obligations and responsibilities.”

SALON Interview (1995)
Kontekst: Other Asian-American writers just shudder when they are compared to me; it really denigrates the uniqueness of their own work. I find it happening less here partly because people are more aware now of the flaws of political correctness — that literature has to do something to educate people. I don't see myself, for example, writing about cultural dichotomies, but about human connections. All of us go through angst and identity crises. And even when you write in a specific context, you still tap into that subtext of emotions that we all feel about love and hope, and mothers and obligations and responsibilities.

“Yin people ring the bells, saying, "Pay attention." And you say, "Oh, I see now." Yet I'm a fairly skeptical person. I'm educated, I'm reasonably sane, and I know that this subject is fodder for ridicule. … To write the book, I had to put that aside. As with any book. I go through the anxiety, "What will people think of me for writing something like this?" But ultimately, I have to write what I have to write about, including the question of life continuing beyond our ordinary senses.”

SALON Interview (1995)
Kontekst: I've long thought about how life is influenced by death, how it influences what you believe in and what you look for. Yes, I think I was pushed in a way to write this book by certain spirits — the yin people — in my life. They've always been there, I wouldn't say to help, but to kick me in the ass to write.... Yin people is the term Kwan uses, because "ghosts" is politically incorrect. People have such terrible assumptions about ghosts — you know, phantoms that haunt you, that make you scared, that turn the house upside down. Yin people are not in our living presence but are around, and kind of guide you to insights. Like in Las Vegas when the bells go off, telling you you've hit the jackpot. Yin people ring the bells, saying, "Pay attention." And you say, "Oh, I see now." Yet I'm a fairly skeptical person. I'm educated, I'm reasonably sane, and I know that this subject is fodder for ridicule.... To write the book, I had to put that aside. As with any book. I go through the anxiety, "What will people think of me for writing something like this?" But ultimately, I have to write what I have to write about, including the question of life continuing beyond our ordinary senses.

“I hid my deepest feelings so well I forgot where I placed them.”

Amy Tan książka Saving Fish from Drowning

Źródło: Saving Fish from Drowning

“Isn't hate merely the result of wounded love?”

Amy Tan The Joy Luck Club

Źródło: The Joy Luck Club

“You remember only what you want to remember. You know only what your heart allows you to know.”

Amy Tan książka Saving Fish from Drowning

Źródło: Saving Fish from Drowning

“I love and am loved, fully and freely, nothing expected, more than enough received.”

Amy Tan The Hundred Secret Senses

Źródło: The Hundred Secret Senses

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