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The Habit of Art: A Play ペーパーバック – 2010/9/14
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Benjamin Britten, sailing uncomfortably close to the wind with his new opera, Death in Venice, seeks advice from his former collaborator and friend, W. H. Auden. During this imagined meeting, their first in twenty-five years, they are observed and interrupted by, among others, their future biographer and a young man from the local bus station.
Alan Bennett's new play is as much about the theater as it is about poetry or music. It looks at the unsettling desires of two difficult men, and at the ethics of biography. It reflects on growing old, on creativity and inspiration, and on persisting when all passion's spent: ultimately, on the habit of art.
- 本の長さ88ページ
- 言語英語
- 出版社Farrar Straus & Giroux
- 発売日2010/9/14
- 寸法13.97 x 0.69 x 21.59 cm
- ISBN-100865479445
- ISBN-13978-0865479449
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レビュー
"A multi-levelled work that deals with sex, death, creativity, biography and much else besides . . . beautifully written . . . deeply moving." --Michael Billington, The Guardian
"Bennett the maestro returns with a multi-layered masterpiece . . . hilariously provocative . . . mixes hard-won wisdom about such matters as the meaning of collaboration, the dubious value of biography . . . and flurries of delirious silliness." --Paul Taylor, The Independent
"Deft, amusing, and so intelligently and generously crafted that it makes you feel clever just watching it . . . The Habit of Art is a richly thought-provoking piece about many things, including artistic creation, the vulgarity of biography, sexuality, friendship, the bubble of reputation, but it also has an intriguingly autobiographical feel at times. What sort of artist have I been? Will anything survive?" --Christopher Hart, The Sunday Times
著者について
Alan Bennett is a renowned playwright, essayist, and storywriter whose play The History Boys won six Tony Awards. He is also the author of the Academy Awardnominated screenplay The Madness of King George. He lives in London, England.
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- 出版社 : Farrar Straus & Giroux; Reprint版 (2010/9/14)
- 発売日 : 2010/9/14
- 言語 : 英語
- ペーパーバック : 88ページ
- ISBN-10 : 0865479445
- ISBN-13 : 978-0865479449
- 寸法 : 13.97 x 0.69 x 21.59 cm
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著者の本をもっと発見したり、よく似た著者を見つけたり、著者のブログを読んだりしましょう
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As a young man, Britten was somewhat in awe of Auden, although they collaborated on a number of projects, including the operetta PAUL BUNYAN in 1941. The failure of the latter caused a breach between the two which was never healed, so the meeting that Bennett dramatizes is fictitious. It occurs in 1972, when Auden takes up residence at Christchurch, Oxford, and Britten is in town auditioning choirboys for his last opera, DEATH IN VENICE (another invention, since the boy's role in that opera was ultimately written for a dancer). The scales have now tipped between the two men, and the situation has much pathos. Auden is presented as a bloated has-been with disgusting personal habits, a far cry from the young Professor of Poetry who so electrified Oxford two decades earlier. He still maintains his "habit of art," but it leads to little new. Britten, on the other hand, is still producing, honored by his country, and surrounded by an entourage of people dedicated to making his life run smoothly. But he is presented as being puritanical, self-isolated, and aloof.
Britten has come to Auden out of loneliness, but the poet thinks he wants help with converting Thomas Mann's DEATH IN VENICE into an opera. Auden was one of the great librettists of the century, and he knew Mann, after all, being the writer's son-in-law. But Britten has a librettist already, the excellent Myfanwy Piper, who shares more of the composer's aesthetic than Auden could do now. Yet the two men do share other bonds, as homosexuals forced into self-censorship by the laws of their times, and as successful public figures trying to cope with the fallout of success. When the distracting superstructure of the play falls away to focus on the dialogue of these two great men nearing the end of their lives, the result is simply superb, not least because Alan Bennett himself shares many of the better qualities of his two subjects. I admit that my own enjoyment is also personal, since my professional career in opera has brought me more than once into the fringes of Britten's orbit, and I am myself a librettist. In that capacity, I especially treasure the definition voiced by Bennett's Auden: "What the librettist, the writer of the words, has paradoxically to do is deliver the music. The librettist is the midwife."
This creative process is only one of the many subjects explored in the play. Too many, perhaps. It surprised me that Bennett, who in his superb series of television monodramas called TALKING HEADS showed himself to be a master of compression, should have allowed so much fragmentation here. But what he has to say is always worth reading.