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De Amerikaanse schrijfster Jane Bowles werd als Jane Auer geboren op 22 februari 1917 in New York. Zie ook mijn blog van 22 februari 2009.xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" />
Uit: Jane und Paul Bowles. Leben ohne anzuhalten (Dubbelbiografie van Jens Rosteck)
Die höchst unkonventionelle Verbindung zweier der wichtigsten amerikanischen Schriftsteller ihrer Ära nahm im Vorkriegs- New York der späten Dreißiger ihren Anfang, führte das Duo auf Abenteuerreisen nach Mittelamerika und Paris, zum Inselkauf nach Sri Lanka und schließlich in einen jahrzehntelang
währenden (Alp-) »Traum am Ende der Welt«, in das Tanger der Nachkriegszeit.
Dort, im Grenzland zwischen Europa, Afrika und Atlantik, im ästhetischen, gesellschaftlichen wie erotischen Freiraum der »Internationalen Zone«, kamen sie Hippies, Drogenabhängigen und Aussteigern zuvor, hielten bereits ab den frühen Fünfzigern Hof, standen im Zentrum mondäner Parties, erweiterten ihre Kreativität und erprobten neue Schreibtechniken durch ungehemmten Kif-Konsum, spürten den Musiktraditionen des Maghrebs nach, erkundeten die Wüste, nahmen an rituellen Trance-Zeremonien teil, wurden Zeugen innenpolitischer Unruhen. Und lockten bald die Vertreter der beat generation mit der sie nicht allzuviel gemein hatten, aber schleunigst von ihr
vereinnahmt wurden in ihr Refugium an diesem geheimnisvollen, abgründigen und gefährlichen äußersten Zipfel Nordwestafrikas voller Verheißung, in die dream city.
Beide wurden in und um New York geboren. Beide verweigerten sich frühzeitig tradierten Vorstellungen von Familienleben und Männer- oder Frauenrolle. Jane wuchs vaterlos mit einer dominanten Mutter auf, erlitt einen schweren Reitunfall und wurde zu Pflegeaufenthalten in schweizerische Sanatorien eingewiesen. Nach unwirklichen Monaten in alpinem Ambiente kehrte sie auf einem Atlantikdampfer in die Staaten zurück, wo sie einem enfant maudit der französischen Literatur, dem Romancier Céline, begegnete ein Schlüsselerlebnis. Janes augenblicklichen Entschluß, selbst Schriftstellerin zu werden, krönte ein abgeschlossener Roman
der Jugendlichen in französischer Sprache. Noch nicht volljährig, lebte sie mit älteren Gefährtinnen zusammen, führte ein Bohème-Dasein in Manhattan und wurde zum Dauergast so mancher Lesbenlokale. Die kettenrauchende Trinkerin, Exzentrikerin und Vielrednerin laborierte jahrelang an Romanen (Two Serious Ladies) und Fragmenten, bei deren mühseligem Abschluß ihr Paul willkommene Hilfestellung leistete.
Jane Bowles (22 februari 1917 4 mei 1973)
Hier met Truman Capote
De Afro-Amerikaanse dichter, schrijver en essayist Ishmael Scott Reed werd geboren op 22 februari 1938 in Chattanooga, Tennessee. Zie ook mijn blog van 22 februari 2009.
beware : do not read this poem
tonite, thriller was
abt an ol woman, so vain she
surrounded herself w /
many mirrors
it got so bad that finally she
locked herself indoors & her
whole life became the
mirrors
one day the villagers broke
into her house , but she was too
swift for them . she disappeared
into a mirror
each tenant who bought the house
after that , lost a loved one to
the ol woman in the mirror :
first a little girl
then a young woman
then the young woman/s husband
the hunger of this poem is legendary
it has taken in many victims
back off from this poem
it has drawn in yr feet
back off from this poem
it has drawn in yr legs
back off from this poem
it is a greedy mirror
you are into this poem . from
the waist down
nobody can hear you can they ?
this poem has had you up to here
belch
this poem aint got no manners
you cant call out frm this poem
relax now & go w / this poem
move & roll on to this poem
do not resist this poem
this poem has yr eyes
this poem has his head
this poem has his arms
this poem has his fingers
this poem has his fingertips
this poem is the reader & the
reader this poem
statistic : the us bureau of missing persons re-
ports that in 1968 over 100,000 people
disappeared leaving no solid clues
nor trace only
a space in the lives of their friends
Ishmael Reed (Chattanooga, 22 februari 1938)
De Amerikaanse letterkundige en literatuurwetenschapper Wayne Clayton Booth werd geboren op 22 februari 1921 in American Fork, Utah. In 1944 studeerde hij af aan de Brigham Young University. Na zijn diensttijd gedurende WO II studeerde Booth Engels aan de University of Chicago waar hij later ook promoveerde. In 1962 werd hij hoogleraar, eerst aan het Haverford College, later aan de universiteit van Chicago. In 1961 publiceerde hij "The Rhetoric of Fiction". Andere belangrijke werken van hem zijn "A Rhetoric of Irony" (1974) und "The Company We Keep" (1988). Van Booth stamt het concept van de impliciete auteur. Daarmee week hij af van de school van het New Criticism. Hij formuleerde ermee belangrijke grondslagen van de receptie-esthetica en van de verteltheorie. Ook het begrip onbetrouwbare verteller stamt af van Booth.
Uit: The Essential Wayne Booth
Even in works that are somewhat successful, there is almost always some shrinking from a fully responsible engagement with the inherent difficulties. For example, in Tender Is the Night, which is in many ways strikingly similar to Macbeth, Fitzgerald waters down the effect in several ways. Dick Diver, Fitzgerald's "noble" man, is destroyed, but he is destroyed only to helplessness-to unpopularity and drunkenness and poverty; he becomes a "failure." The signs of his destruction are never grotesque acts of cruelty or wickedness of the kind committed by Macbeth or of a kind which, for the modern reader, would be analogous in their unsympathetic quality. Rather, he speaks more sharply to people than he used to; he is no longer charming. This is indeed pitiful enough, in its own way, but it is easy enough, too, especially when the artist chooses, as Fitzgerald does, to report the final demoralization of the hero only vaguely and from a great distance: one never sees Dick Diver's final horrible moments as one sees Macbeth's. The result is that, at the end of his downward path, Diver has been more sinned against than sinning, and we have no obstacles to our pity. On the other hand, since the fall has not been nearly so great, our pity that the fall should have occurred at all is attenuated, compared with the awfulness of the last hours of Macbeth. Other attenuations follow from this one. If the fall is not a very great one, the forces needed to produce it need not be great (although one might argue that even in Tender Is the Night they should have been greater, for credibility). Nicole and a general atmosphere of gloom and decay are made to do a job which, in Macbeth, requires some of the richest degenerative forces ever employed.
Wayne C. Booth (22 februari 1921 9 oktober 2005)
De Canadese schrijver Morley Callaghan werd geboren op 22 februari 1903 in Toronto. Zie ook mijn blog van 22 februari 2007.en ook mijn blog van 22 februari 2009.
Uit: They Shall Inherit the Earth
In the early summer evening Andrew Aikenhead, of the firm of Hillquist and Aikenhead, had gone out seeking his son. He had crossed slowly through the traffic with an eager expression on his upturned florid face. He was there on the sidewalk in the crowd, in the way of the passing people, looking up at the rooming house where his son lived, and he was full of delight, as though he had at last taken a necessary step that would bring joy again into his life.
He went into the house, and when he stood in the hall and saw by the names on the wall that his son was on the third floor, he began to climb the red-carpeted stairs, puffing and sighing at every fifth step. On the second floor, where the light was brighter, he saw a small, neat man with such delicate features and such fair wavy hair parted in the middle that he looked like a pretty boy, except that his blue eyes were redrimmed and shrewd, and this man was tiptoeing along the hall carrying a basket of fruit in both hands. The light overhead shone on the blue grapes, the yellow pears and the glossy peaches as he stooped and placed the basket of fruit on the carpet by the door of a room.
Could you tell me where Michael Aikenhead lives? Andrew Aikenhead asked.
Mike Aikenhead, the man said, straightening up and looking embarrassed. Sure, I can tell you. Go on upstairs. The last room on the right at the back. Hes in there. Andrew Aikenhead went on climbing the stairs again, while the fairhaired young man looked doubtfully at the basket of fruit he had placed like an offering outside that door.
In the little hall at the top, where there were onlytwo doors, Andrew Aikenhead coughed, and then he began to clear his throat like a man who is about to make an important speech and offers a few preliminary sounds as a friendly gesture. Then he stood still, looking at the brown-painted door while his heart fluttered strangely and there was a yearning in him that his son might remember and know his voice that had sounded so loud. And when he rapped and his sons voice called carelessly, Come in, he was full of gladness; and as he opened the door he thought, Thats a good omen. Things will go well.
Morley Callaghan (22 februari 1903 25 augustus 1990)
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