Re: Franny sectioned
Camille Scaysbrook (c_scaysbrook@yahoo.com)
Tue, 03 Aug 1999 11:49:10 +1000
Jim Rovira wrote:
> When I write something autobiographical, you know what that's like? It's
> like tracing a painting with a pencil on a sheet of paper. You don't use
all
> the lines, just some, fill in some new ones, then when you color it in
you
> use completely different colors. So when you compare the two works,
they're
> completely different, even though one was initially based upon the other.
It's funny you mention that because it's exactly the same area I'm
exploring myself at the moment. I'm working on a trilogy of plays about the
problems of biography, I've just re-read a book called `The Silent Woman:
Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes' which I hated when I first read it but now
find a very valuable text as it takes the situation of Plath as a metaphor
for biography itself. It actually has something in common with `In Search
of JD Salinger' (which it discusses briefly) - while being a lot more
morally scrupulous, or at least exploring what could be regarded as such in
more depth.
Your interpretation of biography is a very pertinent one, interestingly
enough, because I named the play trilogy `The Callihroe Trilogy', after the
Greek myth about the woman who is supposed to have invented visual art by
tracing around the shadow of her lover's face on the wall of a cave in
charcoal. So I guess it's an analogy that's been used for some time!
Listening to `Gardening at Night' by REM ... God what a heavenly song (:
Camille
verona_beach@geocities.com
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