Uma unokungabaza ngomngcele phakathi kwamakhono okubhala nokubhala, unesixazululo Fran Lebowitz. Akekho omunye umlobi onjengaye, futhi akekho umbhali ongaphakamisa amehlo akhe kancane phezu kwamahlombe akhe.
Futhi uFran wayengabhalanga ikhasi elingaphezu kwemibhalo yobuntatheli yobude bevolumu amashumi ambalwa eminyaka. Kodwa wayengumbhali, ukhona futhi uzoba umbhali. Ngoba ukuba umlobi kuyifilosofi, umthwalo wofuzo, iphrojekthi ebalulekile eyenziwa nini futhi kanjani. Ku-Fran, akukho lutho olubonakala ngaphezu kwesipho sokubhala okulinganiselwe nobuvila bokuhlala phansi ukukwenza. Ngakho, ilebula lombhali elinikezwa abanye lihambisana kakhulu nokungathembeki kunokuba ngokoqobo lomlobi ohluphekayo evalelwe ekamelweni lakhe isikhathi eside. Ken Follett o Danielle Steel.
Kuyiqiniso ukuthi ukuba sendaweni efanele, ukufeza lokho kubonwa kanye nokuqashelwa kombhali naphezu kwakho konke, kubaluleke ngaphezu kwenani lemisebenzi eshicilelwe (khumbula ukuthi UJD Salinger ukuthi ubhale okuningi futhi kuhle kakhulu futhi wonke umuntu uyaqhubeka nokumbiza ngokuthi ungumbhali namuhla…). Ngoba iNew York yenza okwengeziwe kumenzi wefilimu Woody Allen kunamafilimu akho. Yebo, ukube uWoody Allen wayehlala eTeruel wayezoba i-taciturn redneck engenawo umphefumulo. Kunjalo nange-New York - Lebowitz synergy.
Ngakho-ke umbhali u-Fran Lebowitz yingoba uyakusho futhi ngenxa yokuthi lelo gama eliyize elingenamahloni lisebenzela yena ngamahlaya adlulele kanye nekhono elimangalisayo, yiqiniso, lolimi nokuxhumana...
Izincwadi ezi-3 eziphezulu ezinconyiwe ngu-Fran Lebowitz
Usuku olujwayelekile eNew York
"Kuyajabulisa… Ngeza kudosi ka-Huck Finn u-Lenny Bruce omncane, u-Oscar Wilde no-Alexis de Tocqueville, udeshi wekhabhinethi, ama-puns ahlukahlukene kanye nehint ye-slang, futhi uyigcwalise ngokuthinta kokwazi konke." I-New York Times. "I-prose enhle futhi ebukhali ngokukhalipha." The Washington Post. "Leya cocktail yokuhlekisa, ukufiphala, unya kanye newolintshi elibabayo." Pau Arenos, Iphephandaba
Ungumgqugquzeli ozelwe, okwazi ukwehlisa intuthu yeningi lezakhamuzi zakubo futhi ahleke nganoma yisiphi isimo: ukusesha indawo yokuhlala, izikweletu zefoni ezingakhokhelwa, uhambo, ukusayinwa kwezincwadi, ukulala (noma ukungalali) amahora angcolile, isifiso sokuphumelela, iziphuzo ezimbalwa nosaziwayo, izindawo zokudlela ezinhle noma imfundo (yabantu abadala) yezingane.
Uma kwenzeka ungakaqagela okwamanje, sikhuluma ngo-Fran Lebowitz. Sikhuluma ngeNew York. Udume ngokuhambisana nochungechunge Zenze Ungumuzi, nguMartin Scorsese, u-Fran Lebowitz ube yisihambi esikhulu, ekugcineni, futhi kukho konke ukulunga, othole impumelelo emfanele. I-prose yakhe, manje ehlanganisiwe, iyinhlanganisela yamahlaya aqabulayo nahlabayo aseke afundwa emashumini eminyaka.
Imanuwali emfushane yezobuntu
Okwakuvuna ngokujulile noma ngokumelene nolaka kwaba ukusabela kwencwadi yokuqala ka-Fran Lebowitz, eyanyatheliswa ngabakwaTusquets entwasahlobo ka-1984. Asikho isizathu sokukholelwa ukuthi, nge-Breve manual de urbanidad, okufanayo ngeke kwenzeke. U-Fran Lebowitz akenzi lutho lapha kodwa uqinisa yonke inkululeko yakhe yokucabanga nemibono eyaziwayo enikeza amahlaya akhe lawo manyala ashukumisa abaningi futhi angenakubekezelelwa kwabanye.
Yini, kunoma yikuphi, akekho ongaphika lolu hlobo lwe-free-shooter ubuntu. Uthanda noma ungathandi, uyicasule noma ungayithandi, ikhona, ikhona, ikhona kakhulu, iyathandeka ngokushesha, inzondo ngokushesha ku-phlegm yayo ye-egocentric kanye nokuzola kwayo okungenakunyakaziswa. Amahlaya akhe ahlekisayo angavusa ukujabula kwabanye (yize bengewona ocebile, noma abangamaJuda, noma abathandana nabantu bobulili obufanayo, noma abakwesokudla, noma abakwesokunxele, noma abasuka eNew York) futhi kungavusa intukuthelo kwabanye abayizimpumputhe.
Kungakhathaliseki ukuthi kwenzekani, akunakwa. Encwadini ethi A Brief Manual of Urbanity, ekhombisa ithoni yobupapa yomfundi owayethweswe iziqu zesayensi yezenhlalo ayeyiyo, u-Fran Lebowitz uyazijabulisa ngokweluleka insizwa ehlala kunoma yiliphi idolobha elikhulu ukuthi iphile ngesilinganiso esiphezulu se-neurosis ngangokunokwenzeka futhi immeme ukuthi athande. wakhe, hhayi naphezu kwezinkinga zabo, kodwa ngokuqondile ngenxa yazo.
Impilo yedolobhakazi
Fran Lebowitz yenza lapha umlando ononya wezimpilo zabantu abahle, abadumile nabacebile bedolobha elinolaka njenge-New York. Bambalwa abachaze ngokunemba okungaka kanye nangokubhuqa okungaka ukuthi izilwane eziwubukhazikhazi ezihamba emibuthanweni eyinkimbinkimbi yemfashini, ukushicilela, igalari yezobuciko, icinema kanye nethiyetha, ezibambelele ocingweni nasezintweni ezivuselelayo, zalahlekelwa yimizwa. I-Lebowitz ibazi kahle bonke laba bantu, ngoba, eNew York, abantu abahlakaniphile, abagcina bedumile futhi becebile, nabo bagcina bezungezwe amadoda amahle.
Fran Lebowitz bayingxenye yohlobo lwabantu ababengakwazi ngempela ukuhlala kwenye indawo kunaseNew York futhi abanovalo lwangempela lwaseCalifornia, imvelo, abantu abanempilo, abantu abangafundile, izilwane ezifuywayo, ihlobo, izimpelasonto kude nedolobha futhi izingane. Ubhala, kunjalo, ku-"Ingxoxo ka-Andy Warhol," "Vogue," kanye nazo zonke lezo zincwadi zaseNew York ezibe yisimo sangempela sesizukulwane sababhali esibaziyo namuhla ngokuthi "izintatheli ezintsha." Ngemuva kwale ncwadi, futhi okuxakayo mayelana nezifundo zasenyuvesi ezinobuchopho, Fran Lebowitz ubhale esinye isihloko Izimfundo zomphakathi.
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