Podcast: literary teenscreed
Sep. 2nd, 2007 01:34 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
imomus"Juvenilia" is a term applied to literary or artistic works produced by authors in their youth. Since I've recently returned to fiction after a long time writing my stories in song form, I thought it might be interesting to delve back to the teenage me, who wanted, almost religiously, to be a writer. Under the picture (lots of orange to offset the green) you'll find a podcast, a curiosity discovered in the New York boxes I've been rummaging through recently: a tape of the 19 year-old me reading his short stories and poems.
Juvenilia (stereo mp3 file, 28.3 MB, 30mins 54secs)
They're not very well read, I'm afraid. I'm really rushing at the end because the tape is running out. And what a weird accent I had back then! Sort of Scottish Cockney. As for the fiction, it's Scottish Gothic in style; Kafka meets
James Hogg, with secondary splashes of Pittura Metafisica. Giorgio de Chirico actually wrote some short stories, which I remember being very impressed by. I've always liked writing by painters better than writing by writers. If a writer has a sideline or background in drawing -- Günter Grass, Alasdair Gray -- I like their work, as a rule of thumb. I also love, say, Klee's poems, or that weird expressionist play Kokoshka put on. What was it called? Oh yes, Murderer, Hope of Women.
Juvenilia (stereo mp3 file, 28.3 MB, 30mins 54secs)
They're not very well read, I'm afraid. I'm really rushing at the end because the tape is running out. And what a weird accent I had back then! Sort of Scottish Cockney. As for the fiction, it's Scottish Gothic in style; Kafka meets
James Hogg, with secondary splashes of Pittura Metafisica. Giorgio de Chirico actually wrote some short stories, which I remember being very impressed by. I've always liked writing by painters better than writing by writers. If a writer has a sideline or background in drawing -- Günter Grass, Alasdair Gray -- I like their work, as a rule of thumb. I also love, say, Klee's poems, or that weird expressionist play Kokoshka put on. What was it called? Oh yes, Murderer, Hope of Women.![[identity profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/openid.png){kind=small}
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Date: 2007-09-02 12:58 pm (UTC)"When the black guy gets to where he’s going, he robs the cab driver at gunpoint. The cab driver, also Ethopian, was dismayed. Normally he doesn’t pick up blacks, but this guy was Ethiopian."
Also, why is a male blond called a "blonde" throughout?
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Date: 2007-09-02 01:22 pm (UTC)alfred kubin wrote a remarkable surrealist novel.
after the sixties, most of günter grass' writings seem to have become as awful as his drawings and sculpture.
kafka did some doodles on his manuscripts that suggest he maybe could have been a decent draughtsman, too.
but one of the greatest drawing and writing minds has been george herriman, and he, of course, did both at the same time.
(somewhere i read that gertrude stein, after picasso read her some of his poems, told him, "pablo, go painting". they were both big fans of herriman, by the way)
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Date: 2007-09-02 04:25 pm (UTC)Ah, George Herriman! You must listen to this BBC Radio 4 profile of him (http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio4/ram/thu1130.ram). The only compaint I'd make about it -- apart from the fact that radio has no pictures, and you really need them in this case -- is that they really advance the thesis of a book called "High and Low" but don't cite it!
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Date: 2007-09-02 06:34 pm (UTC)i have the catalogue of the "high and low" exhibition from the museum of modern art, 1990. i assume that's the book you refer to. it has a variety of interesting pictorial documents, although i completely disagree with the premise of the book, that there is "high" and "low" cultures influencing each other, and put "modern art" against "trivial culture", with "comics" being "trivial culture" and "painting" being "high art", which is absurd. no art form can be "profound" or "banal" in itself.
another fascinating picture writer: ben katchor (http://www.katchor.com/)
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Date: 2007-09-02 01:46 pm (UTC)a bit of an odd predilection - i hope you like your own writing well enough despite of it.
mike
Date: 2007-09-02 04:31 pm (UTC)Vladimir Nabokov, Henry Miller ...
Re: mike
Date: 2007-09-02 08:22 pm (UTC)Writers who draw? So you like Evelyn Waugh?
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Date: 2007-09-02 05:20 pm (UTC)In other words, it's an unpleasant mixture of fantasy and hardboiled realism, with the fantasy in what I would see as the wrong place.
This is, though, pure prejudice. (Also he should change his name from "Don + Italian Surname", cos it sounds like he's in the mafia.)
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Date: 2007-09-02 07:55 pm (UTC)blond adonis
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