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The new memoir by the author of National Book Award winner Just Kids: "Year of the Monkey is the work that most resembles me." "In its many pages, written as if by an angel (and not from hell), she uncovers all her adventures: those days of love and roses with thorns, and thos...
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The Year of the Monkey
The new memoir by the author of National Book Award winner Just Kids: "Year of the Monkey is the work that most resembles me." "In its many pages, written as if by an angel (and not from hell), she uncovers all her adventures: those days of love and roses with thorns, and those of today, as a seventy-three-year-old woman who constantly travels the world in search of everything and nothing. The absolute." Looking at my reflection in the mercury-gray surface of the toaster, I noticed that I looked young and old at the same time. It's two in the morning on New Year's Eve 2015 when Patti Smith arrives at the Dream Motel, by Santa Cruz beach, after giving a concert at the legendary Fillmore venue in San Francisco. She has just turned seventy. On the first morning of the year, she goes for a walk and takes her first polaroid of the hotel sign, with which she has a lucid conversation, like a modern Alice in her own Wonderland. The chat inspires some verses, and she decides to return to her room, from whose terrace she listens to the waves and thinks about her friend Sandy Pearlman, the famous music producer, who has been in a coma for two days. He was the one who suggested she start a rock band in her youth. This is how a journey begins through the West Coast, the Arizona desert, Manhattan or Kentucky, but also through remembered or imagined places, of the external and internal world, in which Patti Smith allows us to wander alongside her as her most intimate companions. This edition concludes with a moving epilogue written following the events of 2020. Critics have said... "A book that rides between the real and the unreal, the dreamed and the lived. Smith draws in Year of the Monkey an oneiric journey in which the doors between these worlds open and close. [...] She distills everything into [...] delightful books that have made her a literary guru, between punk and poetry." "With her exquisite language, Smith creates her most intimate work, which fascinates and disturbs at the same time, like a Murakami who doesn't take herself so seriously, but achieves the same - and perhaps more authentic - mesmerizing effect." "Patti Smith is an intergenerational goddess." "Patti setting nights on fire with rock poetry." "Punk singer, plastic artist, poet, early feminist, persistent activist, she closes (for now) her memoirs [...], swinging between real and imaginary characters, between future ideals and those distant 70s of which she is an icon. But Patti Smith didn't stay in fashion." "Discovering alongside her, and by walking through the moments of her history, how her creative process is, her influences, the verses that marked her, her vision of the world, or what matters most to her when she thinks, is a true privilege." "A curious memoir in which thoughts, feverish dreams, moving memories flow. [...] A beautiful book." |
Editorial: LUMEN Fecha de publicación: Páginas: 224 Idioma: Español |
