Meine Besprechng von David Peaces „1983“ (Nineteen Eighty Three, 2002) ist online in der Berliner Literaturkritik. Die ersten drei Bände des Red Riding Quartetts habe ich in der Spurensuche abgefeiert.
Wer mehr über David Peace wissen möchte (der Gute hat immer noch keine Homepage), sollte The Rap Sheet besuchen. Ali Karim hat dort heute einen längeren Text (mit einem älteren Interview) veröffentlicht. Der Anlass war dieser Artikel über David Peace im Guardian. Dort sagt Peace über James Ellroy: John Williams’s book about noir writers, Into the Badlands, was my guide, and I discovered James Ellroy. His novel White Jazz was the Sex Pistols for me. It reinvented crime writing and I realised that, if you want to write the best crime book, then you have to write better than Ellroy. Und darüber, dass er Krimiautor genannt wird: Ian Rankin has written a modern history of Edinburgh that has been a huge achievement and a fantastic body of work. If people are put off by him being called a crime writer, that is their loss. But, considering his sales, not many seem to be put off. I suppose I don’t really have that great an imagination, and there is so much from the real world that I just don’t understand. Some of that involves crime of whatever scale or form, and in that case I don’t see the point of making something up. The novel seems the perfect form to examine what has happened in real life, the things that have deeply affected ordinary people and reflected the times they lived in.
Kriminalakte 