M Train

M Train

Taschenbuch
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Beschreibung

Un viaggio in diciotto stazioni a bordo del treno della mente di un'artista leggendaria. M Train parte dal Café 'Ino, il minuscolo caffè del Greenwich Village dove ogni mattina Patti Smith ordina una tazza di caffè nero, pane integrale tostato e un piattino di olio d'oliva. Seduta al solito tavolo d'angolo riflette sul mondo com'è e come è stato e ne scrive sul taccuino. Tra sogno e realtà, tra passato e presente, la sua prosa visionaria ci porta in Messico sulle tracce di Frida Kahlo, a Berlino, alla conferenza di una società di esploratori dell'Artide, a Rockaway Beach, dove Patti Smith compra una casa abbandonata in riva al mare, fino alle tombe di Genet, Plath, Rimbaud e Mishima. Fotografie scattate con l'inseparabile Polaroid scandiscono il cammino e si intrecciano con le riflessioni sul mestiere dell'artista, i ricordi degli anni in Michigan e della perdita del marito, il musicista Fred Sonic Smith. Un libro potente e toccante, fatto di storie vere, viaggi, memorie, meditazioni sulle ossessioni letterarie più profonde, la passione per il caffè e quella per i telefilm, che ci conduce dritto al cuore di un'artista unica, in una nuova edizione arricchita da una postfazione dell'autrice e fotografie inedite. Das Urheberrecht an bibliographischen und produktbeschreibenden Daten und an den bereitgestellten Bildern liegt bei Informazioni Editoriali, I.E. S.r.l., oder beim Herausgeber oder demjenigen, der die Genehmigung erteilt hat. Alle Rechte vorbehalten.

Buchinformationen

Haupt-Genre
Fachbücher
Sub-Genre
Kunst
Format
Taschenbuch
Seitenzahl
288
Preis
22.50 €

Beiträge

4
Alle
3

Patti, Patti, Patti. Our relationship is a complicated one, since she is the only author who can write things that are completely beyond me and yet hit me right in the feels. Honestly: Reading "M Train" in retrospect felt like reading gibberish that I just could not... stop consuming?! What WAS that? Patti's musings are esoteric, wondrous, magical. That is exactly what her writing feels like: No plot, no sense, just her astounding mind absorbing the world around her in the most Patti way, that is, in a way that I have yet to experience outside of Patti Smith's books. So I am afraid my review will be just as scattered, just as muddled, but probably not half as poetic as "M Train" was. What WAS "M Train", though? It was brown toast and black coffee, olive oil and well-thumbed paperbacks, it was Mexico and Iceland, grief and love and the poetry of everyday life, of New York stoops and beach cafés, of hotels and bungalows, writers, artists, lovers. It was cats and frizzy hair, polaroids and ball point pens, in short: It was Patti's life, an inexorably creative, connected and love-filled life. And yet, and yet. I don't know why this memoir failed to shake me to my core, all the necessary variables were there, but it just... didn't quite GET me. So 3.5 stars for a beautiful book. A beautiful, beautiful book.

4

A memoir of a writer, performer and visual artist, that really doesn't talk about her profession.... She can't hide the writer part though, because the language in this book is beautiful. What it leaves me with is the stories of a coffee crazy, crime shows watching book nerd. Right up my alley.

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