The Beautiful Ones
Autor Princeen Limba Engleză Hardback – 29 oct 2019
La sfârșitul anilor '50, în Minneapolis, se năștea Prince Rogers Nelson, un copil care avea să absoarbă sunetele lumii din jurul său pentru a le transforma într-un univers senzorial fără precedent. Considerăm că această lucrare nu este o biografie convențională, ci un act de auto-creație lăsat moștenire. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care volumul capturează procesul prin care un tânăr vulnerabil își construiește, piesă cu piesă, masca de superstar, transformând realitatea brută în paradisul funk al primelor sale discuri și, ulterior, în peisajul mitic din Purple Rain. Subliniem structura fragmentară a cărții, care reflectă natura enigmatică a subiectului său: prima parte ne oferă acces direct la vocea lui Prince prin paginile de memorii scrise chiar de el, în timp ce secțiunile următoare documentează evoluția sa vizuală și creativă prin fotografii candid și documente de arhivă. Ritmul lecturii este unul intim, aproape confesional, oferind senzația unei incursiuni în laboratorul mental al unui geniu care își gândea fiecare gest artistic. Pe același raft cu volumul Prince de Mick Wall, care oferă o perspectivă biografică externă și detaliată, The Beautiful Ones se distinge prin subiectivitatea sa radicală — este singura lucrare unde Prince deține controlul total asupra propriei narațiuni. Față de The Most Beautiful de Mayte Garcia, care se concentrează pe dinamica unei relații personale, acest volum este o explorare a identității artistice pure. În contextul operei sale, dacă Prince: The Last Interview sintetizează declarațiile sale publice de-a lungul carierei, The Beautiful Ones funcționează ca o „prefață” spirituală, explicând rădăcinile obsesiilor sale tematice și curajul de a sparge barierele rasiale și creative ale epocii sale.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 1780899173
Pagini: 288
Dimensiuni: 159 x 241 x 38 mm
Greutate: 0.89 kg
Editura: Random House
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Prince (1958–2016) a fost unul dintre cei mai influenți și prolifici muzicieni ai erei moderne, un multi-instrumentist virtuoz care a redefinit genurile pop, rock, funk și R&B. Originar din Minneapolis, el a creat un imperiu creativ la Paisley Park, rămânând un simbol al independenței artistice. De-a lungul carierei sale, a câștigat numeroase premii Grammy și un Oscar, fiind recunoscut nu doar pentru compozițiile sale complexe, ci și pentru prezența scenică electrizantă. Această autobiografie, începută în ultimele luni de viață, reprezintă ultima sa încercare de a-și spune povestea în propriile cuvinte, completând portretul unui vizionar care a modelat cultura populară timp de patru decenii.
Descriere
THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A Times, Sunday Times and Telegraph Book of the Year
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'A triumph ... a masterclass in the bottling of its subject’s seductive essence. His presence in this book is so strong that it’s hard to believe he has really left the building'
MOJO
'Handsomely presented, visually sumptuous'
THE TIMES
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From Prince himself comes the brilliant coming-of-age-and-into-superstardom story of one of the greatest artists of all time―featuring never-before-seen photos, original scrapbooks and lyric sheets, and the exquisite memoir he began writing before his tragic death.
Prince was a musical genius, one of the most talented, beloved, accomplished, popular, and acclaimed musicians in pop history. But he wasn't only a musician―he was also a startlingly original visionary with an imagination deep enough to whip up whole worlds, from the sexy, gritty funk paradise of his early records to the mythical landscape of Purple Rain to the psychedelia of Paisley Park. But his greatest creative act was turning Prince Rogers Nelson, born in Minnesota, into Prince, the greatest pop star of his era.
The Beautiful Ones is the story of how Prince became Prince―a first-person account of a kid absorbing the world around him and then creating a persona, an artistic vision, and a life, before the hits and fame that would come to define him. The book is told in four parts. The first is composed of the memoir he was writing before his tragic death, pages that brings us into Prince's childhood world through his own lyrical prose. The second part takes us into Prince's early years as a musician, before his first album released, through a scrapbook of Prince's writing and photos. The third section shows us Prince's evolution through candid images that take us up to the cusp of his greatest achievement, which we see in the book's fourth section: his original handwritten treatment for Purple Rain―the final stage in Prince's self-creation, as he retells the autobiography we've seen in the first three parts as a heroic journey.
The book is framed by editor Dan Piepenbring’s riveting and moving introduction about his short but profound collaboration with Prince in his final days―a time when Prince was thinking deeply about how to reveal more of himself and his ideas to the world, while retaining the mystery and mystique he’d so carefully cultivated―and annotations that provide context to each of the book’s images.
This work is not just a tribute to Prince, but an original and energizing literary work, full of Prince’s ideas and vision, his voice and image, his undying gift to the world.
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‘Prince’s voice comes through loud and clear; his personality, joie de vivre and single-mindedness jumping off the page throughout.’
CLASSIC POP MAGAZINE
'The Beautiful Ones is for everyone. It's not a read, but an experience, an immersion inside the mind of a musical genius. You are steeped in Prince's images, his words, his essence… The book can be a starting point for a Prince fascination, or a continuation of long-standing admiration. Either way, it will deepen the connection of any reader with the musical icon.”
USA TODAY
‘The Beautiful Ones remains a jewel-like fragment, Piepenbring’s sensitive introduction providing a snapshot of the Purple One’s last months at Paisley Park and during the Piano and Microphone tour’ Q MAGAZINE
'An affirmation of Prince’s Blackness and humanity… Prince writes about his childhood with clarity and poetic flair, effortlessly combining humorous anecdotes with deep self-reflection and musical analysis… Prince is one of us ― he just worked to manifest dreams that took him from the North Side of Minneapolis to the Super Bowl.'
HUFFPOST
‘A compelling curiosity that finds its author orbiting around a few touchingly intimate encounters with his sphinx-like subject … with passages, lyric sheets and photographs from the Purple One himself’
TELEGRAPH, Books of the Year
'A memoir that is written by Prince, literally. Handwritten pages he had shared with Piepenbring make up Part 1, taking us from his first memory ― his mother's eyes ― through the early days of his career... The Beautiful Ones doesn't paint a perfect picture. It's not definitive. It can't be, it shouldn't be and, thankfully, it doesn't try to be. We'll never know what it might have been if Prince had lived. But it's a good start. Now, it's up to us to take what's there and make something out of it for ourselves, creating, just as Prince wanted.'
NPR
'Both a pleasure and a surprise ... Prince took the project very seriously, and it shows in the work he delivered. ... It shines an intimate and revealing light on the least-known period of his life'
VARIETY
‘The Beautiful Ones is a book in pieces, fragments of the ground-breaking autobiography Prince had planned. Pieced together after his death in 2016, it collects his handwritten childhood memoires, superb personal photographs and his chosen co-writer Dan Piepenbring’s vivid account of their brief collaboration. Yet remarkably despite the central absence, it still catches something of Prince between the gaps - a trace of perfume, a glance to camera, a first kiss’ SUNDAY TIMES, Book of the Year
‘This is a beautiful book and a must-have for Prince completists’
DAILY EXPRESS
Notă biografică
Dan Piepenbring is a writer and former editor at The Paris Review.