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In Reply to: Re: My Last Sigh posted by grinagog on May 27, 2004 at 21:10:24:

How do they dare to profane books, to hell with them, is this Reader Digest?
Now I am confused to have give this to Victor.Was the first Edition, I mean the English one complete?
Let me know, please.
Patrick
PS: So good to have kind of information, thanks the magic of internet.

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First edition in English was a hardback and not "abridged" - grinagog 05:00:26 05/28/04 (4)
at least compared to the paperback which is currently available on Amazon
Don't know how much is missing compared to the Hardback but its commented on more than once in the Amazon reviews that there are significant passages edited out in comparison to the 1st Hardback
However the first ever publication of Bunuels Autobiography was in French, which is the link I added, and I sincerely doubt this was abridged or messed with; it could in fact be more definitive than the English 1st edition hardback(!)
I know the 1st printing was in French because I tried to get a copy in the 1980s when I 1st heard of it; failed, and then the English hardback edition came out which I promptly bought (pre-Internet days)
100% agree that its virtually a criminal act for any editor to trim a book as good as this one; there should be laws against it
Grins
- Re: First edition in English was a hardback and not "abridged" - patrickU 05:24:03 05/28/04 (3)
  I have the French one. You can buy on the Fnac or amazon fr. site.
  Yes a shame.
  P.
  - Cutting text - Victor Khomenko 06:20:24 05/28/04 (2)
    You never know... sometimes editing makes the work better - if it is done for that reason.
    I remember one interesting example. Bulgakov's Master and Margarita was published in one of Soviet magazines (don't recall which one), and of course everyone talked about how butchered it was.
    The copy we got from someone had all the deletions inserted - typed on cigarette paper - the favorite media of the Samizdat at the time.
    We spent a lot of time comparing the short and the long versions of the text, and came to the conclusion that number one the deletions were not of political nature, and number two - they didn't hurt the original, did not change the flow noticeably.
    Of course one should not extrapolate such things. But I have expressed the opinion before that if the Pulp Fiction was cut to forty minutes, it would become a better movie.
    - Re: With the will of.... - patrickU 09:57:29 05/28/04 (1)
      Artist I have less problem..( Everybody knows that people artists or not can be whores ) But definitively cutting without their conscent!
      I think that Luis did not know..Maybe his estate? His mistress, legally speaking.....
      Anyway like at the end of the Holy Word...Wo who....
      Imagine the Venus de Milo.....with two arms? what that was the will of the artist..Hehehe...
      - Re: With the will of.... - Victor Khomenko 11:39:41 05/28/04 (0)
        
        In Reply to: Re: With the will of.... posted by patrickU on May 28, 2004 at 09:57:29:
        
        History of art is strange thing. Speaking of armless Venus... I once visited the studio of a sculptor who was sitting there staring at the wax model of a nude female figure he had just made. He was not quite satisfied, so he took a knife and started whacking at it, getting ready to recycle the wax.
        As I watched it, suddenly it hit me - he struck a nice form without realizing it... I yelled at him to stop and asked to make bronze statue out of that wax figure - he did and I have it, it is quite interesting as it is, gutted, with no arms, no face, but its Greek hairdo still intact - I think the guy exceeded the surrealistic hight of Dali without even noticing it.

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