If there were awards to the iconic characters of the musical world, two of the most prestigious accolades of the XNUMXth century would go to David Bowie on the male side and for Patti Smith on the female side. Being an icon or symbol in the musical goes far beyond the musical notes, the compositions and the lyrics.
In the turbulent years of the mid-twentieth century onwards, after great conflicts and in the midst of cold wars and decentralized conflicts that have lasted until today, musical idols had the power to generate currents of opinion, aesthetic and ideological followers. .
Bowie was a brutal, powerful, transformative and irreverent character. Patti Smith did the same but with the greatest need for demands from women.
And also Patti Smith liked to write, transferring art and background from the musical to the literary.
In this book, Patti Smith collects writings from here and there, from distant times of protest and peculiar experiences, with the evocation of her literary tastes as a common thread, references to French poetry as well as the existentialism of authors such as Camus.
On many occasions the writer discovers that it is anecdotal. A Parisian hotel room, a sleeper and a television where Patti discovers the dance on ice of a seasoned skater. Beauty can push to write and, paradoxically, beauty also reveals melancholy, sadness and obsessions.
But Patti continues to compose a kind of improvised literature that has lasted to this day.
In this book Devotion we find an ideology of the writer's motives that we all carry inside. Only the perspective of the legendary character permeates the entire composition. The perspective of Patti Smith, the rebellious woman who went from the androgynous appearance (even in her broken voice) of her punk beginnings, to the powerful transformative commitment of music offers another scope to what is written, especially as we know more concerns. deep, perhaps those that never fit into song lyrics, those that freed from the necessary lyrical fit, awaken in a prose that, however, ends up caressing other types of musical chords that are perfectly in tune with the soul.
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