Tarantula

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Simon and Schuster, 23 jun. 2008 - 160 pagina's
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WINNER OF THE NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATURE

Music legend Bob Dylan's only work of fiction—a combination of stream of consciousness prose, lyrics, and poetry that gives fans insight into one of the most influential singer-songwriters of our time.


Written in 1966, Tarantula is a collection of poems and prose that evokes the turbulence of the times in which it was written, and offers unique insight into Dylan's creative evolution, capturing the stream-of-consciousness preoccupations of the legendary folk poet and his eclectic, erudite cool at a crucial juncture in his artistic development. It has since been welcomed into the Dylan canon, as Dylan himself has cemented his place in the cultural imagination, inspiring Todd Haynes’s acclaimed 2007 musical drama I’m Not There, selling more than 100 million records, and winning numerous prizes, including the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017.

In his acceptance speech for the Nobel, Dylan acknowledged the early influence on his work of Buddy Holly and Lead Belly as well as of wide-ranging classics like Don Quixote, All Quiet on the Western Front, and Moby Dick. Tarantula is a rare chance to see Dylan at a moment in which he was still deeply connected to his country roots and a folk vernacular while opening himself up to the influence of French 19th-century Surrealist writers like Arthur Rimbaud and the Comte de Lautreamont. A decade before the confessional singer-songwriter who would create the 1975 epic, Blood on the Tracks—which was just optioned by filmmaker Luca Guadagnino—here is Dylan at his most verbally playful and radically inventive.

Angry, funny, and strange, the poems and prose in this collection reflect the concerns found in Dylan's most seminal music—a spirit of protest, a poetic spontaneity, and a chronicling of the eccentric and the everyday—which continue to make him a beloved artist and cultural icon.
 

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Dylan is the greatest musical artist of the 20th century and the best of his lyrics are some of the great poems of the period but this 'novel' is poor. Essentially an extended version of the ... Volledige review lezen

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Pagina 91 - Dylan and the sister-arts, it is, naturally, the traditional sister-art of butter sculpture that most engages his interest, as does the traditional relation between the artist and his brother, the critic. look you asshole - tho i might be nothing but a butter sculptor, i refuse to go on working with the idea of your praising as my reward like what are your credentials anyway? excpt for talking about all us butter sculptors, what else do you do? do you know what it feels like to make some butter sculpture?...
Pagina 124 - ... einstein— melville— porgy snaker— john zulu— kafka— sartre— smallfry— & tolstoy— all right then— what my work is— is merely picking up where they left off— nothing more— there you have it in a nutshell— now i'm giving you my book— i...
Pagina 79 - PLAY?" give up— give up— the ship is lost: go back to san bernardino— stop trying to organize the crew— it's every man for himself— are you a man or a self?
Pagina 91 - The Monkey Taster" about which you said meant "a nice work of butter carved into the shape of a young man who likes only african women" you are an idiot— it doesnt mean that at all ... i hereby want nothing to do with your hangups— i really dont care what you think of my work as i now know you dont understand it anyway...
Pagina 105 - Justine about this dream & she said "that's right— lot of people would feel guilty & close their eyes to such a happening— these are people that interrupt & interfere in other people's lives— only God can be everywhere at the same Time & Space— you are human— sad & silly as it might seem...
Pagina 105 - Space— the only thing we had in common was that we existed in the same moment . . . i could not feel any guilt about just standing there singing for as i said i was picked up & moved there not by my own free will but rather by some unbelievable force...
Pagina 130 - ... go in That direction & please do the greatest deed of all time & say i say mother but it's already been done & she say well what else is there for you to do & i say i dont know mother, but i'm not going in That direction— i'm going in that direction & she say ok but where will you be & i say i dont know mother but i'm not torn joad & she say all right then i am not your mother...
Pagina 24 - Sand in the Mouth of the Movie Star a strange man we're calling Simply That wakes up to find "what" scribbled in his garden. he washes himself with a scrambled egg, puts his glasses in his pants & pulls up his trousers. there's a...
Pagina 46 - ... next time you call me that name in a public cafeteria, i'm just gonna haul off & kick you so you'll feel it. like i aint even gonna get angry. i'm just gonna let one fly. fix you good...
Pagina x - We brought a set of galleys to him so he could take one last good look at it before we printed it and bound it and started to fill all the orders that had come in.

Over de auteur (2008)

Bob Dylan has released thirty-nine studio albums, which collectively have sold over 125 million copies around the world. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature and has been awarded the French Legion of Honor, a Pulitzer Prize Special Citation, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the country’s highest civilian honor. His memoir, Chronicles: Volume One, spent a year on the New York Times bestseller list.

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