Artyczar, on Burroughs (and many other artists) I think it is my lack, I should ask my brother, he is much more prepared, I have known David Foster Wallace, I have a book of his that my brother gave me 10 years ago or plus, book about my favorite tennis player, who I liked tennis and Wallace of the Swiss champion had sung, understood and admired the deeds first of all.
I like Bukowski very much, I had heard the story for the first time in a documentary several years ago, but I hadn't read it, in recent years, I recently started reading it (first 2) and you helped me on the books to start with. thanks to your quotes and advice on the forum. actually I have to thank you for Bukowsky.
One writer I've read in the past, the one I've read the most, probably a large chunk of what I've read is from him, and who is still my favorite or in the top 3 actually is American, Phil Dick. perhaps in the genre he is now a better known name after Asimov by me, or in any case for a film based on his novel it is easy to know him and I think they have translated everything.
but yes, I think that various things (I would exclude only the cinema due to Hollywood impact or now the series) very well known in America in Europe are less so and vice versa, I agree, indeed, speaking of Dick, for me it was the film.
But one person cleared customs, gave America literature to Italy.
The classics began to arrive with Heminway and then all or many others, thanks to one incredible person, Fernanda Pivano, in the 50s, 60s translated many novels, the first American novels published in Italy, in the 40s he translated a farewell to arms but the Fascists did not publish it and interrogated it, obstructed it. then she brought the beat generation, another thing I don't know very well about.
Thanks Hermes.
connections, connections I think are one of the beautiful things in art,
you think of an artist and you discover many others,
discover various genres, connections, I think it's one of the things they like about art,
one of the first things that made me want to admire art and draw were the sanguine or charcoal figures of Michelangelo and Leonardo, I did not know Guercino or Del Sarto, so finding the same beauty in their drawings, or writing drawings by masters is discovering new artists or links is cool,
I think it's a blessing,
then it is also beautiful when you start from one thing and find new, different or opposite genres that you like the same way.
yes, I believe that the connection is precious and for an artist it is one of the arrows in his arc, in any case I thank you because the lines, by Burroughs, seem fascinating, certainly an artist worth knowing. He looks really extraordinary and flexible, so I find it nice that there are influences in your extraordinary work, and that fortunately it is not about his demons.
About drugs, I read yesterday, the movie I said,
he has a part of a few minutes but in which he puts his feelings and his experience, it was something he felt
(spoiler, he plays a priest with a heavy drug addiction).
