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Bezig met laden... Motel Californië (1982)door Sam Shepard
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. Early writings from Shepherd. Snippets of memories. Better writing came later but it was a start on the reflections of his life travelling and working in the western US. ( ) The story, and the longest in the collection, tells about the injury to the brain of his mother-in-law Scarlett, Johnny Dark's wife, and their family alliance for all chipping in, bringing her home after surgery, and helping to bring her back into the world. A wonderful story. And one of several well-worth reading in this collection. This slim volume of random poems, photos and prose sketches, is no mere scrap heap, for it contains the sort of delightful, deranged, dusty, and gothic bits of art that would be spotlighted if the two guys on American Pickers were transformed into earwigs and allowed to spend several weeks crawling around inside Sam Shepard's brain. It's really the perfect book for waiting in line. Each page, for the most part, is a self-contained vignette, which you can digest in a minute, or ruminate on for much longer, until the receptionist, or unemployment clerk, nurse, or maitre d' calls your name. Imagine filling a bowl, in William Buroughs collage fashion, with snippets in the styles of Richard Brautigan, Arthur Rimbaud, and Charles Bukowski and then blowing the mix into a whirlwind with a hairdryer set to the temperature of summer in West Texas. The scattered fallout would approximate the flavor, rhythm and pattern as Motel Chronicles. Magically, a mosaic portrait of the author emerges, with a Mona Lisa enigmatic grin (with maybe a toothpick and tilted cowboy hat added), no matter how you scatter the pieces. Las carreteras, los coches, la soledad y la aventura empapan estas "Crónicas de motel", un libro de «historias rotas», fragmentos autobiográficos, relatos y poemas admirablemente servidos por una escritura rápida y escueta. Historias cortas, fotos, fogonazos llegados del fondo de la mente de Shepard en su recorrido por las carreteras de Texas; fechadas para realzar esa necesidad de situar las cosas en ese momento y en ese sitio. Cosas propias-recuerdos pasados, duros o dulces-, personas que pasan y dejan su impresión en el negativo de la mente; gentes normales sin pasado ni futuro en lugares con pasado y sin futuro; vaqueros; camareras; extras de películas con las ilusiones muertas; amor de media hora; calor; Texas. Todo pasa por dentro o cruza por delate de las ventanas de los moteles. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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Motel Chronicles reveals the fast-moving and sometimes surprising world of the man behind the plays that have made Sam Shepard a live legend in the theater. Shepard chronicles his own life birth in Illinois, childhood memories of Guam, Pasadena and rural Southern California, adventures as ranch hand, waiter, rock musician, dramatist, and film actor. Scenes from this book form the basis of his play Superstitions, and of the film (directed by Wim Wenders) Paris, Texas, winner of the Golden Palm Award at the 1984 Cannes Film Festival. ". . .essential reading. A scrapbook of short stories, autobiographical reveries, poetry and photographs,Motel Chronicles is full of verbal delights, as well as insights into its author's entire canon. Whether Mr. Shepard is reminiscing about his parents or daydreaming about cherished movies and cars of his youth, he speaks in pungent and ethereal language that remakes our West. Read in conjunction with the plays,Motel Chronicles also helps demystify the origins of Mr. Shepard's psychological obsessions and desolate frontier iconography." --Frank Rich,New York Times "If plays were put in time capsules, future generations would get a sharp-toothed profile of life in the U.S. in the past decade and half from the works of Sam Shepard." --Time "Sam Shepard is a shaman--a New World shaman. Sam is as American as peyote, magic mushrooms, Rock and Roll, and medicine bundles." --Jack Gelber Sam Shepard (1943) is a playwright, actor, author, screen writer, and director whose work is performed on and off Broadway and in other theaters across the country. In 1979, he received the Pulitzer Prize for Drama for his playBuried Child. In 1983, he was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor inThe Right Stuff. His other famous works includeTrue West,A Lie of the Mind, andCurse of the Starving Class.Fool For Love & the Sad Lament of Pecos Bill by Sam Shepard was also published by City Lights Publishers. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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