he had already said it

August 25, 2006
 
"The  most popular  plays  of  yesterday are on the  level  of the worst novels of  yesterday. The best plays of  today are on the level of  magazine stories  and  fat  best-sellers.  And  the  highest  form  of  the  dramatic art - tragedy - is at  its  best a clockwork toy  made  in  Greece that little children wind up on the carpet and then follow on all fours.
 
(…) There  is  something I am very  positive about and that is that Shakespeare must be produced in toto, without a single syllable missing,  or not  at all. But from the logical, causal, point of view,  that is, from the point of view of modern  producers,  both Lear and Hamlet are impossibly bad plays, and I dare any contemporary  popular  theatre to  stage them strictly according to the text."
 
(Nabokov, in The Tragedy of Tragedy, ca 1941)

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  1. oi!

    =)

    Comment by Gabriela — August 26, 2006 @ 4:32 pm

  2. Miles Davis realmente disse aquilo sobre João Gilberto?
    estou lendo o livro já.

    Comment by Carla — August 27, 2006 @ 8:08 pm

  3. tu já leste “Chega de saudade” do Ruy Castro né?

    Acho q vc comentou aqui sobre ele, certa vez…

    beijo!

    (sexta-feira, Tender is the night!)

    Comment by Gabriela — August 28, 2006 @ 12:06 am

  4. Carlinha, uma vez que eu não o ouvi dizer, não posso garantir, mas clica no meu nome. Gabi, li sim e não vá esquecer outra vez.

    Comment by tiago a — August 28, 2006 @ 2:15 am

  5. =)
    é. bem convincente.

    Comment by Carla — August 28, 2006 @ 2:29 pm

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