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Studio execs are going to want to adapt more poems for the big screen now
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⟳ Репост от John Self
‘It has reached the stage where an effective modern curse might be “May you appear in a Rachel Cusk book”.’ I wrote about writers who put real people in their novels - and get in trouble.
That’s me in your novel! The perils of writers who borrow from real lifeAuthor Rachel Cusk has caused a fuss for her portrayal of an actress uncannily similar to her friend Natalie Portman. She’s part of a long and inglorious literary traditionwww.thetimes.com
And to M. John Harrison, whose universally-acclaimed (I think?) The End of Everything is also longlisted:
John Self“I’ve read several of Harrison’s novels: not once have I fully understood what was happening, but I keep rushing back for more.” Me on M John Harrison’s The End of Everything, a book that speaks to our time of repeated crises, when disaster follows disaster until something seems permanently broken.
Congratulations to Chloe Aridjis, whose novel The Shadow of the Object has been longlisted for @thebookerprizes.com. My review:
John SelfHilary Mantel's advice to writers to leave the reader "acknowledged, and yet estranged" is exemplified in the intense flavour of Chloe Aridjis's novel The Shadow of the Object, with its focus on the tension between reality and imagination. My review in the FT:
‘It has reached the stage where an effective modern curse might be “May you appear in a Rachel Cusk book”.’ I wrote about writers who put real people in their novels - and get in trouble.
That’s me in your novel! The perils of writers who borrow from real lifeAuthor Rachel Cusk has caused a fuss for her portrayal of an actress uncannily similar to her friend Natalie Portman. She’s part of a long and inglorious literary traditionwww.thetimes.comOsamu Dazai’s books have become a surprise literary hit in recent years. I spoke to his translator and publishers to find out why, and how the shorthand of bleak nihilism in his work isn’t always true:
From author to anime hero: the unlikely revival of a Japanese literary starMore than seven decades after they were first released, the dark novels of Osamu Dazai have become a publishing sensation, as a new generation of readers engage with his bleakness, humour and brillian...www.theguardian.com