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Название книги: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Автор(ы): Michael Chabon
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Amazing-Adventures-of-Kavalier-_-Clay-229585.html
To my fatherWe have this history of impossible solutionsfor insoluble problems.– Will Eisner, in conversationWonderful escape!– Nathaniel Hawthorne, " Wakefield "
PART 1. The ESCAPE ARTIST
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IN later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini. "To me, Clark Rent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or Angouleme or to the editor of The Comics Journal. "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in. Houdini's first magic act, you know, back when he was just getting started. It was called 'Metamorphosis.' It was never just a question of escape. It was also a questi
Название книги: The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
Автор(ы): Michael Chabon
Жанр: Современная проза
Адрес книги: http://www.6lib.ru/books/The-Amazing-Adventures-of-Kavalier-_-Clay-229585.html
To my fatherWe have this history of impossible solutionsfor insoluble problems.– Will Eisner, in conversationWonderful escape!– Nathaniel Hawthorne, " Wakefield "
PART 1. The ESCAPE ARTIST
1
IN later years, holding forth to an interviewer or to an audience of aging fans at a comic book convention, Sam Clay liked to declare, apropos of his and Joe Kavalier's greatest creation, that back when he was a boy, sealed and hog-tied inside the airtight vessel known as Brooklyn, New York, he had been haunted by dreams of Harry Houdini. "To me, Clark Rent in a phone booth and Houdini in a packing crate, they were one and the same thing," he would learnedly expound at WonderCon or Angouleme or to the editor of The Comics Journal. "You weren't the same person when you came out as when you went in. Houdini's first magic act, you know, back when he was just getting started. It was called 'Metamorphosis.' It was never just a question of escape. It was also a questi
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