After seeing the travesty that is the movie version of NINE, when I started reading Love and Obstacles and realized it was a string of short stories about a Bosnian man growing up in various countries and becoming a writer, I was a little hesitant. No more self-referential or self-congratulatory or self-anything stories. But then I started to read it and my biases slid away. The portrayal of displacement and detachment from home is poignant and each individual story becomes more powerful in the company of the other stories. It's almost enough to wash away the image of Daniel Day-Lewis trying to dance or Judi Dench wearing a feather boa. Almost.
Saturday, December 19, 2009
Seriously. She wore a feather boa.
After seeing the travesty that is the movie version of NINE, when I started reading Love and Obstacles and realized it was a string of short stories about a Bosnian man growing up in various countries and becoming a writer, I was a little hesitant. No more self-referential or self-congratulatory or self-anything stories. But then I started to read it and my biases slid away. The portrayal of displacement and detachment from home is poignant and each individual story becomes more powerful in the company of the other stories. It's almost enough to wash away the image of Daniel Day-Lewis trying to dance or Judi Dench wearing a feather boa. Almost.
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