In Reply to: RE: Fassbinder's magnum opus, "Berlin Alexanderplatz:" posted by patrickU on December 19, 2007 at 04:00:55:
Put another way, if an author is going to write things about an "average Joe," don't you think he'd gloss over the good and concentrate on the bad, assuming he wanted to maximize sales?
Not sticking up for Fassbinder, whom I didn't know (of course), but I'd take rumors for a grain of sea salt.
Anyhow, who cares if Raphael was egotistical?
Or that Proust was condescending and cruel?
Or Dostoyevsky mean-spirited and violent?
I'm not looking for buddies among artists.
You mention stuff like this, regularly, so it seems it affects your total view of the artist?
Not mine.
I don't care.
I like Wagner's music.
I like to read Kierkegaard (sp?).
I bet you've enjoyed de Sade???
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Follow Ups
- Well, Patrick, how many books sell about nice guys? - tinear 04:51:31 12/19/07 (8)
- RE: Well, Patrick, how many books sell about nice guys? - patrickU 07:44:14 12/19/07 (7)
- "From a rooten tree never saw good apples..." While from rotten grapes they make Sauternes... (nt) - orejones 08:50:04 12/20/07 (1)
- RE: And Eiswein.... - patrickU 09:20:55 12/20/07 (0)
- So Cellini and Caravaggio, murderers who usually - tinear 13:59:24 12/19/07 (1)
- RE: So Cellini and Caravaggio, murderers who usually - patrickU 03:48:17 12/20/07 (0)
- Caravaggio: damn good apples. Chris Marlowe: same thing. Cellini, as well. So much for your theory. nt - tinear 10:21:18 12/19/07 (2)
- RE: Et merde TIN! - patrickU 10:49:32 12/19/07 (0)
- RE: You cited people before the Evolution.... - patrickU 10:45:26 12/19/07 (0)