Guillermo Del Toro: At Home with Monsters by Britt Salvesen, Insight Editions

Description: Guillermo Del Toro: At Home With Monsters Inside His Films, Notebooks, and Collections By Britt SalvesenPublished by Insight Editions, 2016 Hardcover, like new condition, an excellent copy! Description When I was a child -- a very young child -- a hairline fracture became evident in my soul. I felt growingly disfranchised, puzzled, and at odds with the adult world. It was made up of rules and notions that were both alien and unexplained, and life came to feel like a rigged game. It was almost entirely composed of lies.Adults lie to themselves and to others. They endorse their concerns and inventions -- the ones they all agree to (money, power, war, repression) -- as real. But fantasy is frowned upon as childish.For some of us, it is not.I believe that we all are birthed with a certain quality of glass within us, and that we resonate with specific vibrations -- notes -- of the universe.The note I resonate with is low, dark, and full of monsters.Seeing one of my favorite creatures, I turn into Bernini's Saint Teresa or Stendhal contemplating Giotto. I was lost when they found me, the monsters. Lost like Mowgli in the jungle, like Romulus and Remus in the Tiber -- and these beings gazed upon me with kindness. They, too, were outcasts of this absurd world that demanded impossible perfection and gave nothing back, They were the antipodes of perfection: defined by their condition, disposition, and appearance, and wanting simply to exist. But existing was hard for a monster: chased by torch-wielding lunatics, bombarded with missiles, trapped in cages, stoned away from placid, rustic villages . . . to me, every Universal film turned into a hagiography and every creature, a martyr. Frankenstein's monster emerged as a messianic figure, one who died -- and was resurrected -- and died again for our sins.Monsters are, to this day, true family to me. They are not effigies collected for profit or due to a completist mania. In Bleak House, I have built a temple to them, and within them I have built devotional shrines. I serve them -- a power greater than myself -- with abandon and unwavering dedication and love. I built a house made of books, art, film, and monsters. A house of many stories: dark and stormy stories. A house with secret passages and sliding bookshelves and portraits that follow you as you walk by. I dreamt it all those years ago, alone in the dark, but I only got to build it at age forty-four.This museum exhibition is an act of love: earnest love for the odd and the marginal that tries to amalgamate things, high- and lowbrow, as objects of wonder in a cabinet of curiosities where pleasure never meets guilt.I am fifty-two as of writing this, and I am still most at peace when I am with the oddities, the Lost Ones. I have devoted most of my life to preach their simple gospel: There is another world, a more forgiving and encompassing world, where the arrogance of angels does not weigh so heavily upon our souls and where reason sleeps and we thrive -- as the patron saints of imperfection.And there we sing: "Gooble gobble -- we accept you: one of us!"Will you join us now? Guillermo Del Toro Spring 2016 Shipping We will ship anywhere in the USA and Worldwide! Please contact us if you have questions about shipping multiple books to the same address. We combine rates to save you money.

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