четверг, 6 января 2011 г.
вторник, 4 января 2011 г.
Carson McCullers
Carson McCullers
First of all, love is a joint experience between two persons — but the fact that it is a joint experience does not mean that it is a similar experience to the two people involved. There are the lover and the beloved, but these two come from different countries. Often the beloved is only a stimulus for all the stored-up love which had lain quiet within the lover for a long time hitherto. And somehow every lover knows this. He feels in his soul that his love is a solitary thing. He comes to know a new, strange loneliness and it is this knowledge which makes him suffer. So there is only one thing for the lover to do. He must house his love within himself as best he can; he must create for himself a whole new inward world — a world intense and strange, complete in himself. Let it be added here that this lover about whom we speak need not necessarily be a young man saving for a wedding ring — this lover can be man, woman, child, or indeed any human creature on this earth.
Now, the beloved can also be of any description. The most outlandish people can be the stimulus for love. A man may be a doddering great-grandfather and still love only a strange girl he saw in the streets of Cheehaw one afternoon two decades past. The preacher may love a fallen woman. The beloved may be treacherous, greasy-headed, and given to evil habits. Yes, and the lover may see this as clearly as anyone else — but that does not affect the evolution of his love one whit. A most mediocre person can be the object of a love which is wild, extravagant, and beautiful as the poison lilies of the swamp. A good man may be the stimulus for a love both violent and debased, or a jabbering madman may bring about in the soul of someone a tender and simple idyll.
Therefore, the value and quality of any love is determined solely by the lover himself.
It is for this reason that most of us would rather love than be loved. Almost everyone wants to be the lover. And the curt truth is that, in a deep secret way, the state of being beloved is intolerable to many. The beloved fears and hates the lover, and with the best of reasons. For the lover is forever trying to strip bare his beloved. The lover craves any possible relation with the beloved, even if this experience can cause him only pain.
~ From "The Ballad of the Sad Café"
From "The Ballad of the Sad Café"(1991)
статьи и произведения Карсон МакКаллерс в переводе на русский:
http://infoart.udm.ru/magazine/inostran/n9-20/sredikn.htm
http://vladivostok.com/Speaking_in_tongues/carson.html
http://vladivostok.com/Speaking_in_tongues/carson.html
воскресенье, 2 января 2011 г.
Gianna Nannini!
Ох, тащусь не могу в последние несколько недель))))огонь, огненная женщина, черт возьми, и песни соответствующие!)))
суббота, 1 января 2011 г.
С НОВЫМ ГОДОМ!
Ну вот он и настал, долгожданный 2011 год!Хочу пожелать всем всего самого хорошего, доброго, сказочного!)пускай этот год будет полон новых чудесных открытий, успехов, исполнения желаний!)И конечно любви, тепла и красоты!)
Happy New Year!
пятница, 17 декабря 2010 г.
'Gluck' (Hannah Gluckstein) (1895-1978) Painter
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| Hannah Gluckstein |
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| Peter (A Young English Girl) 1923-1924 by Romaine Brooks (1874 - 1970) |
British artist Hannah Gluckstein defied the conventional roles expected of young women of her class and time. She left her family to become an artist, insisted on being known only as "Gluck," dressed in male attire, and lived openly with women throughout her life. Gluck painted landscapes, floral pieces and portraits of her friends, family, and lovers.
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| Self portrait by 'Gluck' (Hannah Gluckstein) oil on canvas, 1942 |
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| Hannah Gluckstein |
Hannah Gluckstein was born to a wealthy Jewish family on August 13, 1895. Her father, Joseph Gluckstein, owned the J. Lyons & Co. Coffee House and catering empire in London and her mother, Francesca Halle, was an American opera singer. The parents were not supportive of their daughter's artistic pursuits, but Hannah received her only systematic art training at their expense at St. John Wood School of Art in London from 1913 to 1916.
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| "Medallion" by Gluck, cover of the novel The Well of Loneliness, depicts Gluck (right) with Nesta Obermer. |
The dynamic young woman then traveled to Lamorna, Cornwall where she worked with other artists of the "Newlyn School," a group of landscape painters who formed an artists' colony at Newlyn, Cornwall. On her twenty-first birthday, Gluck's father gave her a trust fund that allowed her to pursue an independent life. By that time, Hannah had cropped her hair, shortened her name to "Gluck," and dressed exclusively in male attire.....
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