نداء الوحش
نداء الوحش بقلم Patrick Ness ... «القصص أضرى الأشياء جميعًا. القصص تُطارد وتعضُّ وتقنص. القصص مخلوقات جامحة، إذا أطلقت سراحها، فمَن يدري ما الذي قد تُسبِّبه من دمار؟ القصص مهمَّة، ومن شأنها أن تكون أهمَّ من أيِّ شيءٍ آخر إذا حملت في طيَّاتها الحقيقة». كلَّ ليلةٍ يرى كونر الكابوس نفسه منذ مرضَت أمُّه وبدأت تلقِّي علاج لا يُبشِّر بنتائج ناجحة، لكن الليلة تختلف، فالليلة يستيقظ على صوت زائرٍ يُناديه من وراء نافذته، زائر وحشي قديم قِدم الأرض هائل كقوةٍ من قُوى الطبيعة، وقد جاء لأنه يُريد من كونر أن يفعل أقسى شيءٍ على الإطلاق .. أن يُخبره بالحقيقة.أخذ پاتريك نِس آخر فكرةٍ للكاتبة الراحلة شيڤون داود، ونسج منها حكاية شجيَّة عن الوحدة والفقدان والشفاء، والأهم من ذلك، عن الشجاعة التي تتطلَّبها مواجهة آلام الحياة. صدرت الرواية مصحوبةً برسوم جيم كاي في عام 2011، وحقَّقت نجاحًا نقديًّا وجماهيريًّا كبيرًا، وحصل مؤلِّفها ورسَّامها على عدة جوائز وأوسمة في بريطانيا والولايات المتحدة، وحُوِّلت إلى فيلم سينمائي شهير وعرض مسرحي، فازا بدورهما بعددٍ من الجوائز.
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Patrick Ness
As a child
I was born on an army base called Fort Belvoir, near Alexandria, Virginia, in the United States. My father was a drill sergeant in the US Army, but much nicer than that makes him seem. I only stayed at Fort Belvoir for the first four months of my life and have never even been back to the east coast of America. We moved to Hawaii, where I lived until I was almost six. I went to kindergarten there, and we used to have field trips down to Waikiki Beach. I once picked up a living sea urchin and got about a hundred needle pricks in the palm of my hand. I made up stories all the time as a kid, though I was usually too embarrassed to show them to anybody.
As an adult
I've only ever really wanted to be a writer. I studied English Literature at the University of Southern California, and when I graduated, I got a job as a corporate writer at a cable company in Los Angeles, writing manuals and speeches and once even an advertisement for the Gilroy, California Garlic Festival. I got my first story published in Genre magazine in 1997 and was working on my first novel, The Crash of Hennington, when I moved to London in 1999. I taught Creative Writing at Oxford University for three years, usually to students older than I was.
As an artist
So far, I've published two books for adults, a novel called The Crash of Hennington and The Crane Wife, and a short story collection called Topics About Which I Know Nothing, a title which seemed funny at the time but less so 10,000 mentions later... Here's a helpful hint if you want to be a writer: When I'm working on a first draft, all I write is 1000 words a day, which isn't that much (I started out with 300, then moved up to 500, now I can do 1000 easy). And if I write my 1000 words, I'm done for the day, even if it only took an hour (it usually takes more, of course, but not always). Novels are anywhere from 60,000 words on up, so it's possible that just sixty days later you might have a whole first draft. The Knife of Never Letting Go is 112,900 words and took about seven months to get a good first draft. Lots of rewrites followed. That's the fun part, where the book really starts to come together just exactly how you see it, the part where you feel like a real writer.