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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.
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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!
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Another highlight of this book is a love letter that Leicester came to her.
To Nancy
I hate you! I hate (silly) (stupid) attitude.
I hate the time spent there, and the fact that you like it.
I hate your neurosis.
I hate Dennis (your boyfriend).
I hate you.
Your ambition, dissatisfaction that is born there, this
Make an excuse when trying to keep a distance from me,
I hate the strange "moral drama" melody.
I hate time I can't meet you.
I am depressed without seeing you, "Yes, yes"
I hate the great face that is trying to teach.
I hate your house.
I hate your car.
I hate practicing your brother's piano.
I hate psychedelic light that comes to my brother's eyes.
I hate Iya. ( * Eya is Nancy's grandmother who liked Leicester)
I hate Harold Pinter ( * Not a famous playwright. Nancy was playing a drama)
I hate Zeppelin (I need to crash with the plane to Detroit) ( * Nancy was a fan of Red Zeppelin)
I want to see you
I hate your attitude every time you tell me.
I hate to want to meet you enough to die.
With love, Leicester
(Translation: Mario Tanai)
( * Is my annotation)
If these words are written and delivered on the Lou Reed album jacket, should I do it?
Nancy and Leicester eventually break up (Leicester doesn't last for a long time), but after five years, Nancy has married another man and a new girlfriend has been made in Leicester. In the first collection of criticism, he was trying to dedicate a dedication, saying, "Nancy with love from all over the world." It is inevitably caught in a part that is not related to the person's achievement (although it seems different when this is a human charm). After Leicester's death, the book he had planned was published in a slightly different shape (next to the tonkachi!), But the editor adopted this dedication. Therefore, the name of Nancy, the former Kano, would never have wanted it, but was forever remaining in the history of rock criticism.
Jim decided to write a biography because it was Leicester who recognized himself for the first time and really confronted him. Well, can I have such a relationship with someone before I die? And what about you?
HO (tonkachi)