American writer Winston Groom, author of ‘Forrest Gump’ dies



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The writer is dead Winston’s boyfriend, author of ‘Forrest Gump’. CNN reports it by citing Karin Wilson, mayor of Fairhope, Groom’s hometown in Alabama. Groom was 77 years old. His novel, after the premiere of the film that had a sensational success, went from 30,000 to one and a half million copies sold, causing the explosion of the phenomenon known as “gumpism”.

The book narrates thirty years of American history seen through the eyes of an idiot, intelligently alternating reality with fiction and irony with sentimentality, and emphasizing the observations that the protagonist makes about everything that happens to him. These are banal observations, often nonsensical, that however, thanks to the funny and crazy apodicticity with which they are pronounced, acquire the disguise of wisdom and absolute truth.


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Forrest Gump, the story of thirty years of history waiting for the bus on the bank

No one would take jokes like “Life is like a box of chocolates: you never know what’s inside”, or “It’s stupid who does stupid things”, thanks to the structural wisdom with which they are made. pronounce themselves to the protagonist, they manage to hide the emptiness on which they are based.

The Movie: The Story of an Idiot Genius

Forrest Gump was born with an IQ of just seventy-five points, but he has a knack for running like the wind. The film covers the most important stages of these three decades, going through the Vietnam War, the protests of the flower children, the attacks and assassinations of presidents and the arrival of AIDS.

American writer Winston Groom, author of 'Forrest Gump' dies

A picaresque epic of a modern Candide, eternal optimist driven by two great loves: by his mother (Sally Field), who raised him on his own by convincing him that he was no different from the others and by Jenny (Robin Wright), from whom he is in love from an early age, a child victim of his father’s abuse who, when he becomes a woman, falls prey to all fashions and social movements.



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