--- Tim O'Connor <tim@roughdraft.org> wrote:
>
>
> Anyway, I stupidly bought an audiobook that
> contained some Hemingway
> voice recordings, but also The Old Man and the Sea
> and a few stories
> read by Charlton Heston. It was agony to hear
> Santiago's story
> through the lips of old Moses himself.
jds, in the whit burnett tribute:
"In this nutty, exploitive era, people who read short
stories beautifully are all over the place--recording,
taping, podiumizing, televising--and I wanted to tell
Faulkner, who must have hear countless moving
interpretations of his work, that not once, throughout
the reading, did Burnett come between the author and
his beloved silent reader."
personally, i could never stand, nor now seek out,
readings of texts i care about. that other voice
later faintly echoing in the head, in addition to my
own, would be disconcerting. even the author's
reading of his own work is problematic. isn't there
something about each reader's individual silent voice
which carries the words to the center of one's self?
and don't get me started on movie adaptations of
books. nothing could be more repulsive than an actor
playing a character who is perfectly formed in my (and
every reader's) mind's eye.
second 'and': and as bad is the movie bio about
writers and artists. when i conjure up van gogh, kirk
douglas get the hell out of there. can't imagine
sitting through a pic of jeremy irons as kafka, or
nicolle kidman as woolf....
kim
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