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Born to Be Posthumous de Mark Dery

Born to Be Posthumous

Autor Mark Dery
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 oct 2020

Având dimensiunile unui volum de referință consistent, cu peste 500 de pagini, Born to Be Posthumous se așază pe masa de lectură ca o poartă masivă către un univers estetic singular. Suntem de părere că această lucrare depășește formatul unei biografii clasice, transformându-se într-o explorare senzorială a minții celui supranumit „Bunicul stilului Goth”. Mark Dery reușește să captureze textura unei vieți trăite printre mii de volume și zgomotul metalic al brățărilor purtate peste haine lungi de blană, oferindu-ne acces în intimitatea unui artist care a transformat macabrul într-o formă de eleganță ludică.

Experimentăm, prin paginile sale, tranziția de la suprafața excentrică a personajului Gorey — cel care împărțea camera la Harvard cu Frank O'Hara — la profunzimea unui creator care a influențat viziunile unor artiști contemporani precum Tim Burton sau Neil Gaiman. Complementar volumului Nonsense!: The Curious Story of Edward Gorey din aceeași sferă biografică, dar cu o perspectivă mult mai analitică și documentată, textul lui Dery utilizează corespondență recent descoperită pentru a demonta mitul mizantropului solitar. Putem afirma că autorul reconstruiește riguros contextul în care au apărut capodopere precum „The Gashlycrumb Tinies”, evidențiind colaborările sale cu giganți literari ca Samuel Beckett sau T.S. Eliot. Ritmul narativ este dens, bogat în detalii despre obsesiile și identitatea fluidă a lui Gorey, oferind o experiență de lectură imersivă într-o epocă de un rafinament bizar.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780008329846
ISBN-10: 0008329842
Pagini: 512
Dimensiuni: 128 x 197 x 40 mm
Greutate: 0.44 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această biografie cititorilor pasionați de istoria artei și de figurile excentrice care au modelat cultura vizuală modernă. Veți descoperi omul din spatele desenelor macabre, înțelegând cum un estet pasionat de pisici și literatură a devenit un punct de referință pentru mișcarea gotică. Este o lectură esențială pentru a înțelege legătura dintre ilustrația comercială, suprarealism și literatura absurdului, oferind un context academic, dar accesibil, operei lui Gorey.

Despre autor

Mark Dery este un critic cultural, autor și eseist american, recunoscut pentru analizele sale pătrunzătoare asupra subculturilor și esteticii contemporane. Interesul său pentru intersecția dintre tehnologie, artă și macabru îl face biograful ideal pentru Edward Gorey. Dery a scris extensiv despre „cyberculture” și este creditat cu inventarea termenului „afrofuturism”. În Born to Be Posthumous, el își folosește expertiza pentru a contextualiza viața lui Gorey nu doar ca artist, ci ca un precursor al sensibilităților moderne privind identitatea și stilul, oferind o perspectivă critică rară asupra geniului acestui „dandy” postum.

Descriere

The definitive biography of Edward Gorey, the eccentric master of macabre nonsense. 'A genius book about a bookish genius' Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events From The Gashlycrumb Tinies to The Doubtful Guest, Edward Gorey's wickedly funny and deliciously sinister little books have influenced our culture in innumerable ways, from the works of Tim Burton and Neil Gaiman to Lemony Snicket. Some even call him the Grandfather of Goth. But who was this man, who lived with over twenty thousand books and six cats, who roomed with Frank O'Hara at Harvard, and was known - in the late 1940s, no less - to traipse around in full-length fur coats, clanking bracelets, and an Edwardian beard? An eccentric, a gregarious recluse, an enigmatic auteur of whimsically morbid masterpieces, yes - but who was the real Edward Gorey behind the Oscar Wildean pose? He published over a hundred books and illustrated works by Samuel Beckett, T.S. Eliot, Edward Lear, John Updike, Charles Dickens, Hilaire Belloc, Muriel Spark, Bram Stoker, Gilbert & Sullivan, and others. At the same time, he was a deeply complicated and conflicted individual, a man whose art reflected his obsessions with the disquieting and the darkly hilarious. Based on newly uncovered correspondence and interviews with personalities as diverse as John Ashbery, Donald Hall, Lemony Snicket, Neil Gaiman, and Anna Sui, Born to be Posthumous draws back the curtain on the eccentric genius and mysterious life of Edward Gorey.

Notă biografică

Mark Dery is a cultural critic. He coined the term "Afrofuturism," popularized the concept of "culture jamming," taught at Yale and NYU, and has published widely on pop culture, the media, and on the mythologies (and pathologies) of American life. His books include Flame Wars, a seminal anthology of writings on digital culture; Escape Velocity: Cyberculture at the end of the century, The Pyrotechnic Insanitarium: American Culture on the Brink, and the essay collection, I Must Not Think Bad Thoughts: Drive-by Essays on American Dread, American Dreams. Like Gorey, his mission in life "is to make everybody as uneasy as possible."

Recenzii

One of the Best Books of the Year: NPR, The Guardian, Boston Globe, Paste, Mental Floss, San Francisco Chronicle
"As a perfervid Goreyphile, I was a bit leery of a biography undertaking to spell out the details of his life. Did I really want to have the mystery solved? But Mark Dery drags the pond to revelatory result, contextualizing and analyzing Gorey, plunging into his obsessions, dissecting his sexuality, and even examining the philosophical import of nonsense while somehow managing to leave the central enigma radiantly intact. This is an absolutely riveting book about an utterly sui generis subject."—Alison Bechdel, author of Fun Home
"The best biographies are the result of a perfect match between author and subject, and it's relatively rare when the two align perfectly. But that's the case with Born to Be Posthumous--Dery shares Gorey's arch sense of humor, and shows real sympathy for his sui generis outlook and aesthetics. Dery's book is smart, exhaustive, and an absolute joy to read... the biography [Gorey] has long deserved."—NPR
"A detailed, devoted, and highly readable biography of the illustrator who--from The Doubtful Guest to The Curious Sofa--defined and embodied a world of camp, gothic hilarity."—Ben Schott, The Guardian
"Smart and entertaining... brings us closer than ever to understanding a man devoted to enigmas."—Washington Post
"Edward Gorey has been granted the most remarkable biography, one I believe he could have lived with. What was the likelihood that this singular genius could be restored, with such compassion and grace, within his whole context: Balanchine, surrealism, Frank O'Hara, Lady Murasaki, et al? This is a Dery Gorey book."—Jonathan Lethem
"Provocative... Dery makes a convincing case that Gorey was the true godfather of Goth, inspiring a generation of pop culture memento mori, from the IMAX-scale nightmares of Tim Burton... to the travails of Lemony Snicket... Dery has set the standard for a comprehensive appraisal of his legacy."—San Francisco Chronicle
"An entertaining account of an artist who liked to be coy with anybody who dared to write about him."—New York Times
"Gorey has found a superb biographer in Mark Dery... Some enigmas aren't meant to be solved--but they can be usefully illuminated. That's just what Dery does in this excellent book."—Seattle Times
"Ravishing...Dery portrays the man behind those odd little books that delighted in showing children in danger, blending Victorian and Surrealistic sensibilities; Gorey was a Harvard man, a balletomane, and ultimately, an enigma."—The Boston Globe
"Edward Gorey's ardent admirers have long known there is something about his work one can't quite pin down. Past all reason, Mark Dery has pinned it down. A genius book about a bookish genius."—Daniel Handler, author of A Series of Unfortunate Events
"Will delight the most devoted bibliophile... deeply-researched."—Globe and Mail
"That sense of our ultimate aloneness in the world makes Gorey's books as haunting as they are odd. Dery's affectionate tribute to an artist who was 'incomparably, unimprovably himself' also shows Gorey evoking in his work feelings of alienation, longing, and dread that are perhaps more common than we like to admit."—Boston Globe
"Mark Dery's deep, clear-eyed biography of Gorey is so welcome. He pulls at the disparate threads running through Gorey's art... and unearths the artist's gay identity."—NPR
"Writer and illustrator Gorey is more myth than man. But Mark Dery fleshes out the Grandfather of Goth in this new biography, and by doing so, he paints a picture of a fascinating man... Dery fills in the rest of the pieces with affection, admiration, and humor."—Paste
"Knowing Gorey's full story, done sparkling justice by Mark Dery, will only make you adore him more."—Caitlin Doughty, author of Smoke Gets in Your Eyes
"Well-considered... Cultural critic Dery constructs a nimble framework to fully appreciate the gothic artist and designer's contributions to high art and queer culture... The reclusive author and designer of such ghoulish gems as The Doubtful Guest and the animated introduction to the PBS series Mystery! comes fully alive, fur-coated and bejeweled, as an unlikely icon of the counterculture."—Kirkus
"Peculiar to a T, Gorey and his work are eccentric in the most congenial and appealing way, and cultural critic Dery gives them a book that matches them in ingratiation, fascination, and artfulness."—Booklist (starred review)
"Fascinating... Dery brings an analytical eye to the creations of the avant-garde illustrator and writer."—The National Book Review
"An inviting cabinet of curiosities...Every chapter is a revelation... fans will absolutely revel in this book... Mark Dery pulls back the grand drape in a way that does not dispel the magic but simply sanctifies Gorey's contribution."—Lambda Literary
"In his provocative biography of Gorey, Dery shows that the artist, instead of being a fusty old Edwardian misanthrope, was a flamboyant dandy and an early avatar of asexuality."—San Francisco Chronicle