Ray Bradbury, der Autor von The Martian Chronicles, Fahrenheit 451, Something Wicked This Way Comes und weiteren literarischen Klassikern, verstarb heute in Los Angeles, Er wurde 91 Jahre alt.
Sein Ableben wurde sowohl von seiner Familie als auch von seinem Biographen Sam Weller bestätigt.
Ray Bradburys Enkel Danny Karapetian veröffentlichte aus Anlass des Todes seines Großvaters die folgende Erklärung:
„If I had to make any statement, it would be how much I love and miss him, and I look forward to hearing everyone's memories about him. He influenced so many artists, writers, teachers, scientists, and it's always really touching and comforting to hear their stories. Your stories. His legacy lives on in his monumental body of books, film, television and theater, but more importantly, in the minds and hearts of anyone who read him, because to read him was to know him. He was the biggest kid I know."
Er fügte hinzu:
If you're looking for any single passage to remember him by, I just picked up my copy of The Illustrated Man, my favorite of his books. The introduction is entitled "Dancing, So As Not to Be Dead," and there are some great lines about death. My favorite:
"My tunes and numbers are here. They have filled my years, the years when I refused to die. And in order to do that I wrote, I wrote, I wrote, at noon or 3:00 A.M.
So as not to be dead."
I'm an actor, something he was always been really proud of, and told me once, after getting cast in a play. "You're living out my life! You're doing everything I wanted to do but couldn't!" He was such a driving force in my life, but what always fascinated me were his impact on others. How his stories lifted people up and saved them from lonely summers. Who among us was never buried deep in a Bradbury story, lost in his meticulously yet effortlessly crafted metaphor?
Ray Bradbury war wirklich eine Inspiration und wird von allen Fans schmerzlich vermisst werden. Das Genre ist ohne ihn um einiges ärmer.
Photo: AP.
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