Tom Robbins, the novelist and Prankster philosopher, who enchanted and added millions of readers with screwball adventures Even cowgirls get the blues And Jitterbug perfumehas died. He was 92.
Robbins’ death was confirmed by his friend, the publisher, Craig Popelars, who said the author died on Sunday morning.
Robbins were blessed with “Crazy Wisdom” and published eight novels and the memoirs Tibetan peach cake And liked to look at his world of dead absurdity, the authority commentary and the zigzag-zag-store strands. Nobody had a wilder imagination, regardless of whether we have an idiosyncratic heroine with an extended thumb in the Cowgirls Or landed in a provisional zoo in a provisional zoo Another attraction on the roadside. And nobody told Odder jokes about himself: Robbins once described his light, scratching drawing as “as if it were tense with Davy Crockett’s underwear.”
He could find out almost everything except growing up. The People Magazine described Robbins “The multi -year flower child and wildly flowering Peter Pan of American letters”, which “destroys the braids in history in strange ink and spoils his graffiti about the face of modern fiction”.
“The mischievous boy”
Robbins came from Blasing Rock, NC, who moved to Virginia and was called “Meierster Boy” by his high school. He was able to adapt every story in his books with one about his life. There was time that he had to see a proctologist and dipped a duck mask. (The doctor and Robbins became friends). He liked to remember the food server in Texas, who buttoned her top and revealed a faded autograph, his autograph.
Or this strange moment in the nineties when the FBI was looking for references to the identity of the in -mop by reading Robbin’s novel Still life with woodpecker. Robbins would say that two federal agents, both attractive women, were sent to interview him.
“The FBI is not stupid!” He likes to say. “You knew my weakness!”
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He also managed to meet a few celebrities, partly thanks to the film adaptation of Even cowgirlsplayed the main role in Uma Thurman and Keanu Reeves and performed in films such as Breakfast of the champions And Mrs. Parker and the vicious circle. He wrote that he was Debra Winger from 1991 at the 1991 Oscar award ceremony and almost killed himself at an Oscars feast party, as the hope of impressing Al Pacino and swallowing a glass of Cologne. He had happier memories of checking in a hotel and recognizing a young, pretty employee who raved about his work and ignored the man who stood next to him.
In Robbins’ novels, the search was everything and he helped to catch the wide -open spirit of the 1960s because he knew life so well. He dropped the acid, put the coast on coast, traveled from Tanzania to Himalaya and continued to survive with friends and strangers in a way that he had no right. He was not based on topical indications of Mark time, but on understanding the era from the inside.
“Faulkner had had his Gothic Freak Show, Hemingway, his European battlefields and cafés, Melville, Melville, his New England with his high ships,” he wrote in his memoir, published in 2014. “The world had not quite seen since then No psychological upheaval, a paradigm shift, a widespread, although ultimately not sustainable egalitarian leap.
His way to the fiction letter had its own hallucinatory quality. He was a failure of the Washington and Lee University (Tom Wolfe was a classmate) who joined the Air Force because he didn’t know what else to do. He moved to the northwest of the Pacific in the early 1960s and was somehow commissioned to check an opera for the Seattle Times, and was the first classic music critic to compared Rossini to Robert Mitchum. Robbins would soon be in a Farcical meeting with the conductor Milton Katims and talked to work on his own libretto. The gypsy from Issaquahnamed after a suburb of Seattle.
“You have to admit that it had an opera ring,” emphasized Robbins.
“Best Practitioner of High Stupidity”
In the late 1960s, publishers heard of his antics and thought he could have a book in him. A Douleday editor met Robbins and agreed to pay 2,500 US dollars for what has become Another attraction on the roadside. The debut novel by Robbins, published in 1971, sold little in hardcover despite praise by Greaham Greene and Lawrence Ferlinghetti, but became a paperback. Even cowgirls get the blues came out in 1976 and finally sold more than 1 million copies.
“Read solemnly with expectations of conventional coherence, Even cowgirls get the blues Wants to disappoint, “wrote Thomas Leclair in the New York Times.” Cowgirls is entertaining and, like the used mirror over there from the lawn mower, often instructive. Tom Robbins is one of our best practitioners with high stupidity. “
Domestic stability was another longer adventure; An ex-girlfriend complained: “The problem with you, Tom, is that you have too much fun.” He was married and divorced twice and had three children before setting his third wife Alexa d’Avalon, who appeared in the film version of Even cowgirls get the blues.
Robbins contain other books Half sleeping in the frog pyjamasPresent Violent disability home of hot climates And Incognito villa. His awards included the Bumbershoot Golden Umbrella Award for lifelong achievements and was called the 100 best authors of the 20th century by Writer’s Digest. But he no longer appreciated praise than a letter from an unnamed woman.
“Your books make me laugh, they make me think, they make me horny,” he informed him, “and they draw my attention to the whole miracle of the world.”
