FilmClub: dimarts 26 d'abril a les 19 h a la Biblioteca Mestra Maria Antònia.
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About the book
When she was only twenty-three, Carson McCuller's, created a literary sensation with this her first novel. She is very special, one of America's superlative writers who conjures up a vision of existence as terrible as it is real, who takes us on shattering voyages into the depths of the spiritual isolation that underlies the human condition.
This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a small Southern town, the cosmos universal and eternal. The characters are the damned, the voiceless, the rejected. Some fight their loneliness with violence and depravity, some with sex or drink, and some –like Mick– with a quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.
This book is planned according to a definite and balanced design. The form is contrapuntal throughout. Like a voice in a fugue each one of the main characters is an entirety in himself –but his personality takes on a new richness when contrasted and woven in with the other characters in the book.
This book is literature. Because it is literature, when one puts it down it is not with a feeling of emptiness and despair (which an outline of the plot might suggest), but with a feeling of having been nourished by the truth. For one knows at the end, that it is these cheated people, these with burning intense needs and purposes, who must inherit the earth. They are the reason for the existence of a democracy which is still to be created.
The author
In December 1936 Story magazine published "Wunderkind", the first fictional work by teenage author Carson Smith to appear in print. In retrospect her choice of title appears doubly ironic. In the story the term refers to the young protagonist, Frances, an aspiring pianist whose dream of a concert career collapses when she can no longer perform with her usual precision and passion. "Wunderkind" may also be read as a fictionalized treatment of Carson Smith's own abandoned musical ambition and as a prophetic comment on her destiny as the internationally acclaimed author Carson McCullers.
The firstborn child in her family, Lula Carson Smith was lavished with love but also burdened by maternal expectations of genius. As a girl she –like Frances– trained to be a concert pianist, but her delicate health and the departure of her piano teacher helped to turn her toward a writing career instead.
With her second publication, the commercially and critically successful novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, McCullers was touted as a literary wunderkind.
The film
Director
This novel is the work of a supreme artist, Carson McCullers's enduring masterpiece. The heroine is the strange young girl, Mick Kelly. The setting is a small Southern town, the cosmos universal and eternal. The characters are the damned, the voiceless, the rejected. Some fight their loneliness with violence and depravity, some with sex or drink, and some –like Mick– with a quiet, intensely personal search for beauty.
This book is planned according to a definite and balanced design. The form is contrapuntal throughout. Like a voice in a fugue each one of the main characters is an entirety in himself –but his personality takes on a new richness when contrasted and woven in with the other characters in the book.
This book is literature. Because it is literature, when one puts it down it is not with a feeling of emptiness and despair (which an outline of the plot might suggest), but with a feeling of having been nourished by the truth. For one knows at the end, that it is these cheated people, these with burning intense needs and purposes, who must inherit the earth. They are the reason for the existence of a democracy which is still to be created.
The author
In December 1936 Story magazine published "Wunderkind", the first fictional work by teenage author Carson Smith to appear in print. In retrospect her choice of title appears doubly ironic. In the story the term refers to the young protagonist, Frances, an aspiring pianist whose dream of a concert career collapses when she can no longer perform with her usual precision and passion. "Wunderkind" may also be read as a fictionalized treatment of Carson Smith's own abandoned musical ambition and as a prophetic comment on her destiny as the internationally acclaimed author Carson McCullers.The firstborn child in her family, Lula Carson Smith was lavished with love but also burdened by maternal expectations of genius. As a girl she –like Frances– trained to be a concert pianist, but her delicate health and the departure of her piano teacher helped to turn her toward a writing career instead.
With her second publication, the commercially and critically successful novel The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, McCullers was touted as a literary wunderkind.
The film
- Robert Ellis Miller
Cast
- Alan Arkin - John Singer
- Sondra Locke - Mick Kelly
- Laurinda Barrett - Mrs. Kelly
- Stacy Keach - Blount (as Stacy Keach Jr.)
- Chuck McCann - Spiros Antonapoulos
- Biff McGuire - Mr. Kelly
- Percy Rodrigues - Doctor Copeland
- Cicely Tyson - Portia
- Jackie Marlowe - Bubber
- Johnny Popwell - Willie
- Wayne Smith - Harry
- Peter Mamakos - Spirmonedes
- John O'Leary - Beaudine
- Hubert Harper - Brannon
- Sherri Vise - Delores
- Don Swafford - Dr. Gordon
Other books by the same author that you can find in English at the Public Libraries of Catalonia (link):
- The Ballad of the Sad Café
- Sweet as a pickle and clean as a pig / Dulce como un pepinillo y limpio com un cerdito (Bilingual childern's poetry book).
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