CREMA – «The pompom girls They didn’t want me and neither did the baseball team, but I loved them madly the books. I started writing when I was 11.” He said it Jeffery Deaver in the Pietro da Cemmo room in a meeting in which the American writer spoke freely about himself: «When I was very young I was a nerd. The cheerleading girls didn’t want me and neither did the baseball team. But I had the books. I locked myself in the library to read James Bond e the Lord of the Rings».
Il master of crimewhich sold more than 50 million copies and was translated into 25 languageswas the protagonist of the evening organized by the bookshop Mondadori. His is the story of a shy boy who started writing at 11 years old. Not a muscular, sporty young American, but a avid reader who found in books and writing the path to redemption and success which, later ‘The Bone Collector’ on which the film was based Denzel Washington e Angelina Jolieit has become global. It was 1997 and since then Deaver, having closed his career in journalism and the legal profession, has remained at the top of the ranking of the most loved authors on a global level, publishing more than fifty books.
In front of the public great opportunities rushed to the Sant’Agostino cultural center, introduced by the councilor for culture Giorgio Cardile e Giordano Formenti and with the translation of Seba Pezzanithe writer presented his last effort, ‘The watchmaker’s hand’published by Rizzoli. But in reality he spoke mainly about himself, about his working methodof its characters and also of American politics.
Deaver è un true professional of writing motivated by a priority objective: «My readers must experience intense and exciting emotions. I work 10 hours a day, six days a week and study a lot before starting a new novel. I’m a planner. I publish one book a year. The first eight months I conduct research. In the other four I focus on writing.” Deaver considers himself a businessman as well as a writer of thriller. The story is built in advance following a pre-arranged and inflexible schedule: «It is the only way to distribute the clues in a plausible way otherwise the twists, which are the my fortethey are not credible.”
In fact he will go down in history for having revolutionized a genre who has always based his fortune on men of action while his most famous character is the tetraplegic criminologist Lincoln’s Rhime: «I was tired of the heroes at Bruce WillisI wanted someone who would fight evil with the strength of his mind alone.” There were many questions from the public. One precisely on his conception of good and evil: «Two irreconcilable camps. There are the values that found a just society. And then there’s the opposite.” A vision Manichaean which is reflected in the plots where good always prevails in the end. The public repays him with gratitude by following to the letter the advice he did not hesitate to give before signing the copies: «Buy my book»!
