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Philip K. Dick. Biography in comics (Phil, une vie de Philip K. Dick)

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Philip Kindred Dick has written many works you know even if you haven’t read them. The fact is that they were successfully filmed:

  • Blade Runner (1982)" and "Blade Runner" 2049 (2017)Based on the novel "Do androids dream of electric sheep"
  • Remember everything. (1990)- based on the story "We'll remember everything"
  • “Minority opinion (2002)"- based on the story "Special opinion"
  • "Outcasting" (2006)" - based on the novel "Outcasting" "Screamers" - based on the story "The Second Model" "The Man in the High Castle" based on the novel "The Man in the High Castle" (Hugo Award for Novel, 1963) Also, researchers of the authors’ creativity note the influence on the trilogy “The Matrix”, where the dikovic combination of sarcastic comedy and bizarre metaphysics is noticeable. In addition, note the impact on the “Dark City”, “Videodrome”, “Existence”, “Thirteenth floor” and others. And the script of “The Truman Show” so closely repeats the idea and features of the novel “The Connection of Times Broken” that, according to researcher Jason West, the film looks like a direct adaptation of the book.

If we go back to the book itself, then the French screenwriter Laurent Quaissy and the Italian artist Mauro Marchesi for the first time in the form of a graphic novel wrote a biography of this science fiction writer, who had a difficult personal life: His twin sister died shortly after birth and Philip believed she somehow lived in it. His mother and father divorced in his childhood. He had visions and hallucinations about the past and future that affected him and led to paranoia, such as fear of being victimized by the government.

  • he had five wives - biographers associate such a frequency of changing wives with his mother Dorothy: the writer may have unconsciously transferred his complex relationship with his mother to other women and literary characters

As a result, this graphic novel is interesting enough to read to understand how such a bright writer appeared.

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