French Connection in These titles mean nothing.
- Dec. 10, 2023, 5:18 a.m.
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I’m reading a Saul Bellow novella called A Theft. It’s was copyrighted 1989, and my copy was a generously sized Book of the Month paperback. It’s about me, who I might have been with money, connections, a psychiatrist, four husbands, three daughters, a love of my life, and an emerald ring.
A bulb lit above my head.
The Austrian au pair is like, and not like, the American girl who goes to France to get a useful Parisian accent in Lily King’s The Pleasing Hour, published in 1999.
AND!!!
The last few nights I listened to James Baldwin’s novel Giovanni’s Room (1956) in which male love cannot make a commitment - and its similarity to Annie Proux’s short story “Brokeback Mountain*, (1997, later the big movie).
THUS!?!?!?
Was King influenced by Bellow?
Was Proux influenced by Baldwin?
BEATS ME ---- four profound and very artful stories.
Last updated December 10, 2023
Sleepy-Eyed John ⋅ December 10, 2023
Exciting when you discover something new. Never read any of those tho.
NorthernSeeker ⋅ December 10, 2023
Perhaps these stories are more common in real life but not often written about in the literary world. I know that is a horribly prosaic view.
noko ⋅ December 10, 2023
We are a connection making species. Go you. Knowing who we might have been matters.
NorthernSeeker ⋅ December 26, 2023
It seems like ages since you've written. How are things with you?
woman in the moon NorthernSeeker ⋅ December 27, 2023
You and another canadian are wondering.
I need to get back to you, to here.
thinks are fine. I have some news.....nothing big of course, but small items.
I'll be back pretty soon.
tomorrow??