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Michel Faber , australijski pisarz urodzony w Holandii.

Do 7. roku życia mieszkał w Holandii, skąd przeniósł się z rodziną do Australii. Od 1993 mieszka w Szkocji i pisze po angielsku.

Debiutował w 1999 zbiorem opowiadań Some Rain Must Fall. Pierwsza powieść Pod skórą ukazała się w 2000. Dwa lata później wydał postmodernistyczną Dickensowską powieść o prostytutce żyjącej w wiktoriańskim Londynie Szkarłatny płatek i biały , która okazała się światowym bestsellerem. Napisał ponadto nowele The Hundred and Ninety-nine Steps i The Courage Consort. Kolejny zbiór opowiadań The Fahrenheit Twins wydano w 2005. Wikipedia  

✵ 13. Kwiecień 1960
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Michel Faber: Cytaty po angielsku

“Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them.”

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Michel Faber książka The Crimson Petal and the White

First lines, Ch. 1
The Crimson Petal and the White (2002)
Kontekst: Watch your step. Keep your wits about you; you will need them. This city I am bringing you to is vast and intricate, and you have not been here before. You may imagine, from other stories you've read, that you know it well, but those stories flattered you, welcoming you as a friend, treating you as if you belonged. The truth is that you are an alien from another time and place altogether.

“What you lack is the right connections, and that is what I've brought you here to make: connections.”

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Michel Faber książka The Crimson Petal and the White

Źródło: The Crimson Petal and the White (2002), Ch. 1
Kontekst: What you lack is the right connections, and that is what I've brought you here to make: connections. A person who is worth nothing must introduce you to a person worth next-to-nothing, and that person to another, and so on and so forth until finally you can step across the threshold, almost one of the family.

“Trust is absolutely precious, and its betrayal horrifies me. I do want readers to trust me. And yet I don't want to offer them a safe, predictable ride.”

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Michel Faber

Interview in 3 A.M Magazine (2002) http://www.3ammagazine.com/litarchives/2002_sep/interview_michel_faber.html
Kontekst: Trust is absolutely precious, and its betrayal horrifies me. I do want readers to trust me. And yet I don't want to offer them a safe, predictable ride. The literary scene seems to be divided between "trustworthy" authors who give their fans a Big Mac that's totally unchallenging, and more ambitious authors who treat their readers with high-handed indifference. I want to earn the reader's trust while remaining unpredictable. I take the reader to some dark and emotionally uncomfortable places but never just for the sake of it. And I do care about how you're feeling on your journey. Many people have remarked on how readable and engaging they found The Crimson Petal despite its great length. That wasn't accidental. I thought very carefully about how to keep the reader intimate and awake.

“A single day spent doing things which fail to nourish the soul is a day stolen, mutilated, and discarded in the gutter of destiny.”

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Michel Faber książka The Crimson Petal and the White

Źródło: The Crimson Petal and the White

“Participating in Society in not a thing one can do naturally; one has to rehearse for it.”

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Źródło: The Crimson Petal and the White

“The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next minute it's just a memory.”

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Michel Faber książka The Book of Strange New Things

Źródło: The Book of Strange New Things

“Most true things are kind of corny, don’t you think? But we make them more sophisticated out of sheer embarrassment.”

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Michel Faber książka The Book of Strange New Things

Źródło: The Book of Strange New Things

“Shared suffering, she’d found, was no guarantee of intimacy.”

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Michel Faber książka Under the Skin

Źródło: Under the Skin

“History indulges strange whims in the way it dresses its women.”

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Michel Faber książka The Crimson Petal and the White

Źródło: The Crimson Petal and the White

“Let's not be coy: you were hoping that I would satisfy all the desires you're too shy to name, or at least show you a good time. Now you hesitate, still holding on to me, but tempted to let me go.”

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Michel Faber książka The Crimson Petal and the White

Źródło: The Crimson Petal and the White (2002), Ch. 1

“The main characters in this story, with whom you want to become intimate, are nowhere near here. They aren't expecting you; you mean nothing to them. If you think they're going to get out of their warm beds and travel miles to meet you, you are mistaken.”

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Michel Faber książka The Crimson Petal and the White

Źródło: The Crimson Petal and the White (2002), Ch. 1

“I've studied Ulysses in depth and still think it's a great and ground-breaking book, a brave and sincere trail-blazer — but also massively self-indulgent, baggy, and irritating.
Joyce was a wonderful liberator, but his approach is dangerous for a writer to emulate, since he had a massive ego and was convinced that every word he wrote was sacred. Have you seen his annotated proofs? He scarcely ever deleted a word, just added screeds and screeds more stuff in the margins. He also believed that people should, and would, read novels with the same slow, studious pondering of every word and phrase that they bring to ancient scripture, which I think is a stupid thing for a storyteller to expect.”

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Michel Faber

Interview at Canongate http://www.canongate.net/MichelFaber

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