Paroles was first published in French 1949. Selections from Paroles English translation by Lawrence Ferlinghetti first appeared in book form in the USAParoles was first published in French 1949. Selections from Paroles English translation by Lawrence Ferlinghetti first appeared in book form in the USA by City Lights Books in San Francisco 1958. The poems comprise nearly half of the complete Paroles. This 1965 Penguin Modern European Poets edition has a good Introduction by Ferlinghetti, 1964.
Read Selections from Paroles and then listen to Bringing It All Back Home, Highway 61 Revistited, and Blonde On Blonde....more
Willy and the hand shift. The road is long, the book is trim. Short and sweet, the generation Beat. The karma of the Dharma.
LEW "Cadillacs are always iWilly and the hand shift. The road is long, the book is trim. Short and sweet, the generation Beat. The karma of the Dharma.
LEW "Cadillacs are always in a hurry Call it a watchpocket book Look at these buildings What are they DOING here This arroyo & that sand I last saw Amarillo as a soldier smoking my first cigar & Roosevelt died
Roosevelt had a dirty asshole so we had Pearl Harbor Hitler had a dirty ass so we had Buchenwald Senator McCarthy had a dirty asshole & he died Not one cowboy in Texas has a clean asshole But there is one in Las Vegas Alexander Pope had a dirty asshole T S Eliot prays for the dirty asshole T S Eliot's fog had a dirty asshole The last time I saw Paris I had a dirty asshole Pres Eisenhower plays golf with a dirty asshole No insult intended to his partner"
There are several pages scribed over hundreds of miles on the trip across America
What a History book. Always good to look through and reread the text which relates to each iconic graphic cover and images that span the twentieth cenWhat a History book. Always good to look through and reread the text which relates to each iconic graphic cover and images that span the twentieth century to early 2000s. There's the LIFE magazine cover May 1970 of the Tragedy at Kent State. The TIME cover of a multiple identical photo of Richard Nixon interspersed with images of the Vietnam War, the headline asks the question, "What if we just pull out?". There is the 1965 Sunday Times Magazine cover image of Dunkirk in 1940, the photo by German photographer Hugo Jaeger. His colour pictures lay buried for years in a tin box in Baveria, published for the first time in 1965. So, so much history in this book....more
I enjoy these Pelican Book brief overview introductions on a given subject. In this one, Contemporary British Art by Herbert Read there are numerous coI enjoy these Pelican Book brief overview introductions on a given subject. In this one, Contemporary British Art by Herbert Read there are numerous compressed statements in this compact publication to unpack for one to wax wide.
One subject is Britain and Surrealism. Surrealism on the Continent was objective, social-political statement. Surrealism is naturally subjective in the British, hiding in plain sight. Absurdist sense of humour. Alice in Wonderland and so on.
I may come back and expand on the many other points raised by the author, an historian and art critic. An Art Critic, keep in mind is just that, an art critic....more
The opening paragraph of Bonjour Tristesse, by Françoise Sagan, her first novel published at age nineteen. "A strange melancholy pervades me to which IThe opening paragraph of Bonjour Tristesse, by Françoise Sagan, her first novel published at age nineteen. "A strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sadness. In the past the idea of sadness always appealed to me, now I am almost ashamed of its complete egoism. I had known boredom, regret, and at times remorse, but never sadness. To-day something envelops me like a silken web, enervating and soft, which isolates me." The opening paragraph shows a sureness and self confidence in the character of the author herself.
"Intelligence is the capacity to be happy. And I define stupidity as unhappiness and depression. Truly intelligent people know how to be happy," said Françoise Sagan, as we sat, eating croque-monsieurs, in her sunlit home near the Boulevard Montparnasse. Quoted from 'Through Parisian Eyes: Reflections On Contemporary French Arts And Culture', by Melinda Camber Porter, 1970s.
Bonjour Tristesse was an immediate success when first published in 1954. The central premise of the novel is the father-daughter relationship. This subject I found is highly popular in all its various storylines in literature and in film. Usually the father-daughter story begins with a distant fractured history that becomes resolved and united at the end. Bonjour Tristesse is different in that the protagonists are happily mutually supportive throughout. That fact is why Sagan's debut novel resonated with the public, I believe, who recognised in the daughter, Cècile, and the author's self confidence....more
