Do you read or not read Leicester?

Do you read or not read Leicester?

~ Celebrate the book review of Leicester Bangs in the Asahi Shimbun-

I can't really tell you that you should read this book. Leicester Bangs, the main character of this book, is a minor critic of Rock critic (what a major critic?), And there is no criticism before birth, and he writes a full -fledged novel. Ambition could not be realized after all. It is strange that the film of the movie was broken on the way because he died at the age of 33, and that the biography was written in the first place. So, do you have to read you? No, wait. Why is the biography of such a man written, and why is the Japanese version of the Nokonoko appeared for more than 20 years since the publishing of the English version? Do you want to know the mystery? If you've got somehow, you are chosen for this book. Now, sit there and listen to the story.

 There are two highlights in this book.

 

 One is a 15 -year -old author (Jim) going to see Leicester two weeks before his death. At that time, Leicester was skeptical of the job of rock criticism, but exposed to a 15 -year -old kid. "Looking back now, it's inevitable that I started doing this job, because music and text was the biggest attachment for me. Famous records. This is the story of the collector and an extension as a fanatic listener, so I want to hear the fanatic opinions there. He talks about it without any help. You can see how decisive in the boy's heart. This was the same for Takaaki Yoshimoto who went to see the hero Dazai Osamu. Dazai took him to his favorite bar and asked the Yoshimoto boy, "You know what the essence of a man is."

In everyone's puberty, I have my own hero who has customized itself. That alone is something that goes through like "Hakata", but if something tries to touch the essence of the hero itself, it will be an "incident" and will affect your lifetime. Even in the only one -time Aise, the essence of the hero is always integrated with kindness, sadness, care, and loneliness, so once you touch it, there is a deep magnet somewhere in your heart. It is fixed. The effort that Jim wrote the biography was something that was gained from one Aise. One minute encounter creates a 50 -year -old love, and a 3 -minute song creates an enthusiasm for 100 years. If you know it, you will know.

 The tragedy of Leicester was to say, "Let's digest the thrills pursued as the impulse of puberty, or to live or in aesthetics." Says "Leicester". He warns that he will always go bankrupt, but that's exactly what is Leicester, what the Jim boy received, and that's the only thing we can receive from this book. A "person who knows Leicester" is called a tragedy, but it is the purpose of living, not a tragedy. You don't know!