The guy who ill at ease goes home and kills himself. In America, he goes out and pulls in the job. (Proverb)

Paul Schrader sest inspired Dostoevsky basement of notebooks and diary of a guy who tried to assassinate presidential candidate George Wallace for the screenplay of Taxi Driver. Meanwhile, Richard Elman spawned this novel based on the scenario. In terms of adrenaline in lorganisme when read, it does not compare with the film. Unless Schrader sest sprained fingers and can not write it himself, one wonders why Elman needs to rewrite since this is exactly the same scenario.
Anyway, the impulse that gave all its density to the story, we owe it to Schrader, insofar as this is, a certain way, his own autobiography. Indeed, at that time, Schrader through a bad patch: after a divorce, he drank a lot and lived in his car. Like his character, he frequented the porn cinemas and had developed a fascination with guns. He also confided in dune interview that writing Taxi Driver was his therapy.
The lone Travis, daily witness of emptiness and absurdity of existence in New York, is reminiscent of the scribe Bartleby by Melville, who a century earlier, was in Wall Street desert, the same experience. But if the scribe, more transcendent than the crude taxi driver internalizes his rejection of the world disappearing without fuss, the driver himself, persists in its desire and dexister dy still leave its mark on leaving, suddenly 44 Magnum in a bloody apotheosis, like the samurai of the other Melville, the filmmaker.
Which is weird, this is the story that ends in happy ending half fig half grape, like a shabby failed suicide's when it should have finished, as in Melville, in complete despair as it began.