Un article en anglais sur Philip Jose Farmer

[jerome]

Gary Wolfe a signé un artlcle nommé : Tracking Phil Farmer's Influence—and Others . Il est en ligne sur le site de Locus.

Voici un extrait. L'article dans son entier est là

"The observation is this: there are some SF writers who seem to have an immediate and dramatic impact on other writers, and younger writers in particular. The early '50s saw a fair number of imitation Bradbury stories, and the '80s a fair number of imitation Gibson stories, for two examples.

But there are other writers who seem so idiosyncratic that it takes some time for their real influence to become apparent, as though their ideas and techniques have to seep into the groundwater of the field, or as though the field itself has to gradually mutate to accommodate them. Phil Farmer, I think, was one of these. His notion that you could take whatever you wanted from any genre in order to make the story work, that you could draw equally on James Joyce and L. Frank Baum, on William Burroughs and Edgar Rice Burroughs, is almost familiar to us now that genre barriers have grown permeable, but when Phil started doing it, even from the beginning of his career, it must have seemed completely off the wall."