Green, it could be argued, took his to the next level: Peter Van Houten is a crucial character in The Fault In Our Stars, and "his" words don't just kick off the book then disappear - both his thematic and his physical presence is felt throughout the entire story.
Till she cry, “Lover, gold-hatted, high-bouncing lover,īoth serve the purported purpose of an epigraph - to establish a book's themes at the get-go - and both are credited to fictional authors.
If you can bounce high, bounce for her too, “Then wear the gold hat, if that will move her One of Green's professed favorite books, T he Great Gatsby, also includes a fabricated epitaph. But there’s no question that the title of An Imperial Affliction is indeed taken from this poem. In a blog post from two years ago Green responded to a reader who'd nailed down the origin of An Imperial Affliction's title - the Emily Dickinson poem "There's a certain Slant of light" - to wax (kind of) poetic on "reality" in relation to the epitaph: I’m not going on record as to whether the quotation from Peter van Houten’s novel An Imperial Affliction used as the epigraph to The Fault in Our Stars is “real,” because to do so would mean bringing up all kinds of questions about what constitutes “real” when you’re talking about fictions. ‘Well, and time.’ - Peter Van Houten, An Imperial Affliction Look at it, Rising up and rising down, taking everything with it.’ ‘What’s that?’ Anna asked. Van Houten is, yes, an invention of Green's for the purpose of the themes and story of The Fault In Our Stars - as is the epigraph to TFiOS, an apparent quote from An Imperial Affliction: “As the tide washed in, the Dutch Tulip Man faced the ocean: ‘Conjoiner rejoinder poisoner concealer revelator.
John Green was once a little evasive when it comes to the question of whether or not An Imperial Affliction, by Peter Van Houten - the book over which Hazel and Gus fall head-over-heels in The Fault In Our Stars - is "real." The answer you're probably looking for is that, no, An Imperial Affliction is not a book that exists in full in our corporeal world you cannot find it at your local bookstore or on Amazon.
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