from "La duexieme vie de nelly arcan", in the magazine L'Actualite:
--"L'autofiction est une pratique sado-maso. 'J'etais mes tripes sur la place publique. C'etait presque un sacrifice de moi-meme que j'etais en train de faire,' reconnait Nelly Arcan. 'Je n'ai pas de regrets, mais je ne veux plus de ca'."
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Auto-biographical fiction is a sadomasochistic practice. "I have my affairs in a public place. It's a self-sacrifice that I'm in the process of taking," says Nelly Arcan. "I have no regrets, but I don't want any more of it."
I read a similar thing about the weakerthans, basically saying that autobiography is great and all, but that they were moving on, as though it were a pained existence.
I think it's a good point/place for artists/musicians to start...
It seems like autobiographical fiction is the starting place for many (if not most) accomplished writers. Maybe it's because when young writers start they haven't had enough experience of the world to write convincingly about anything else (ergo the old saw: "Write what you know.")Perhaps it is because one cannot feel free to explore the feelings and motivations of others until s/he has attempted to place personal experience within an artistic context. It also seems likely that there is something about the artistic temperament that drives the artist to tell his or her story. But it is equally true that in most cases one must move beyond this (sometimes self-indulgent) practice, because yes, it can get majorly depressing and indeed sadomasochistic if focused upon too much.
I just finished reading Kurt Vonnegut's latest book "A Man Without a Country" which is really a memior, not a fiction (as was the last book I read of his for the most part "Timequake.") Talk about depressing.
good call, yep.
i'm gonna read that vonnegut book.
just read portrait of the artist as a young man by that hack joyce
pure drivle. where does he get off anyway?
trois pouce au plancher
(three thumbs to the floor)
endnote:
how do you spell drivvel?
hah ha ha!
drivel.
haven't read enough Joyce to say. but "the dead" and "araby" are amazing.
for a canadian joyce of poetry, see a.m. klein.
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