"It 's impossible to get a whole world in a book." This is how Paul Murray, 35 year-old writer Dublin author of the novel surprising Skippy dies, leaving in Italy for the types of issues in delicious necklace Special Isbn Books. But after reading the book, a work that begins with a history of elite college students in a Catholic and then explodes in a thousand other suggestions , one suspects that Murray actually has approached to create something that looks really a world. Monumental novel (815 pages in small enough character) dies Skippy is an object difficult to circumscribe , new piece of that history ever - surprisingly - in the novel development which is total. From Moby Dick to 'Ulysses , literary history is punctuated by moments bring havoc on the scene and change the tables. Without wishing to be compared to Melville and Joyce Murray , comparison almost impossible for anyone, the fact remains that it is in that groove that his novel is going to place with the right mix of narration, more or less classical and veritable literary epiphanies .
"When I started writing the book - said Paul Murray Kilgore - I thought of a story, but then I realized that the environment of the school you could put a lot: after all, is a crucial period of life in which develop their personalities and you are forced to deal with diverse people. And through this ploy could face many aspects of Irish life. " The stories of Daniel "Skippy" Juster , whose fate is manifest from the title and fulfilled even in the prologue, and his classmates, teachers, parents and religious who run the school, seem almost a pretext to create a choral work, full of references to something else, in which Murray creates a large number of linguistic registers. To the writer "the style is immensely important . I'm Irish - he explained - and our literature is obsessed by language, in the wake of authors such as Joyce or Beckett. In this novel, the challenge was just to find the so many different voices for characters. "
addition to linguistic influences, which are still the backbone of the literature and that alone could "do" the novel, dies Skippy is also an interesting kaleidoscope of ideas : from the latest scientific theories of origin ' universe of considerations on the sense of history, from the syntax of SMS to the always complex world of family feelings. Which stands well as a work deeply rooted in the present. "We live a very interesting time - said Murray - with new media and Internet are changing our civilization. The novel must adjust must contain all of these things. " And when asked how it would do a big book of 800 pages of instant messaging at the time, Murray says, "In the Internet there is certainly a quick use of the content, but there is also a universe of information and references that you keep glued to the video for days. It 's something that recalls Joyce's attempt to encapsulate a whole book in a single day, with plenty of connections and relationships. "
addition to the proud Irish tradition, Paul Murray is also looking at two giants - in their own way enigmatic - of recent literature: Roberto Bolaño and Thomas Pynchon , Which is united by seemingly insignificant coincidences. "The Chilean - said the writer has an incredibly powerful language and Pynchon is a hero. Both are writers of great courage. " Murray knows that Paul is not intended in the near future to join the club.
