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Bezig met laden... Morning, Noon and Night (editie 2000)door Spalding Gray (Auteur)
Informatie over het werkMorning, Noon and Night door Spalding Rockwell Gray
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The hilarious new monologue about fatherhood, by the author ofIt's a Slippery Slope In Morning, Noon and Nightthat master of the confessional, Spalding Gray, tells the event-filled, emotionally charged and outrageously funny story of one day of his life in October 1997, after the birth of his son Theo. Horrified by the prospect of having another son, considering what he and his two brothers did to their father, and ambivalent about the idea of living in a small, quaint town on eastern Long Island that seems an odd detour for a man destined for California, Spalding comes to feel, of course, a profound affinity for his baby boy, born with the looks of "a wet, blue beaver." But this is not merely a father's account of an infant son; it's the story of his new life with his girlfriend Kathie; his regally precocious eleven-year-old stepdaughter, Marissa ("Please don't let me die a virgin!"); and his older son, Forrest, who stymies Spalding time and again with his metaphysical inquisitiveness: "Daddy, what's behind the stars?" "How do flies celebrate?" Cosmic questions that for Gray are reinforced by the view from his bedroom window-a seventeenth-century graveyard-a cold reminder to the author of the impermanence of things, the transient nature of his life, the strange calling of his profession, which brilliantly confirms Wordsworth's dictum that the child is father to the man. A richly comic work about parenthood , about adults who don't grow up and children who do, that stands as Spalding Gray's most mature work to date. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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This one I did not finish, but not because I am yet another disillusioned or oddly angry fan who feels artistically betrayed by Gray's later suicide. On that point, I think it might be instructive for other readers to know that the depression that brought him so low that he took his life appears to have come on, at least in part, because of brain injury he suffered after a car accident in Ireland. For more on that, see the posthumous book LIFE, INTERRUPTED, which includes an unfinished (and rather interesting) monologue about the incident. I have also heard Gray's widow on This American Life explaining what life was like for him after the accident, and I think it's an element of his life story worth considering. Dismissing this book because the author's life ended in suicide seems strangely judgmental. A writer's works should not be discounted just because his last decision was misguided and irrevocable.
All that said, my problem with the book is somewhat summarized in Gray's own fears about the direction of his monologues: happiness and contentment can make for dull reading. The challenges of parenthood don't create quite the same kind of tension as his earlier problems, and it seems clear that he is also telling stories with greater self-consciousness. I don't blame him for taking into consideration the feelings of his wife and children when writing about them, but as a reader, I also don't feel compelled to read the results. I left this one unfinished, which was disappointing after following his work for so many years. It was more disappointing still since there will be no more monologues to look forward to, but I did appreciate the central story in LIFE, INTERRUPTED, and I think that one's definitely worth a read. (