Fascinating, sulfur, artificial .... Beyond the clichés of the platinum blonde pin-up, pure-product of Hollywood studios, Marilyn embodies the climax of the puzzle. She wrote. These fragments - letters, diaries intimate notes and poems to the hazards - illustrate the duality of this extraordinary actress, portray intimate one woman to the alarming fragility. The prose is haunting and hypnotic. Certainly depression: tragic icon of the 50s. As produced by them for them. And sacrificed it as such. Become
actress almost by accident, Norma Jeane Mortenson enjoyed a meteoric rise that she was not mentally prepared, and which only increased discomfort developed since childhood. Made a difficult childhood of rejection, a neurotic relationship with the mother will cause the feeling of abandonment and anguish that reads the lines in his writings.
calmed barbiturates, supported both somehow by psychoanalysis, writer Marilyn fight here in his own words to avoid sinking into the abyss where his psyche would lock him up ... Diary of a prisoner, more wild analysis, fragmented and continuous, it plunges us into the heart of the inner life of this woman moon - this "radiant woman" as Truman Capote called her - who fought against it every day and never stopped even to transform into words the reality.
Mysterious, poetic, inquisitive, but also fragile .... Here it is, the real Marilyn, as revealed by his writings. Marilyn a loving literature - reading his Contemporary Carson McCullers, Blixen, Nabokov, Beckett, Pavese, Kerouac, devouring the classics Dostoyevsky, Kafka, Rilke, and poetry, but also paint. The Black Paintings Goya in which it is planned: "I the same dreams since I was a kid . His life is like a fictional drama, a life of voluntary isolation - just as was that of the poet Sylvia Plath in enclosed "bell distress" . And in this skewed ... We must review the last scene of Misfits by John Huston - which I consider his masterpiece-which broke fatal loneliness, the despair of a wife Roslyn - twin sister of Marilyn? - A clueless, lost in the vastness of the desert screaming his discomfort. John Huston said about her: "It was wonderful. She was not playing. She really lived the role. "Pursuing a chimera
... Marilyn desperately sought his place in the world, called for help ... Help! - Title of one of his poems. Too late.
"Help
After One Year of analysis
Help help
Help
I feel life coming closer
When I all want
Is to die
Scream –
You began and ended in air
But where was the middle ? »
(1956)
...
« I can and will help
myself and work on
things analytically no
matter how painful – if I
forget things (the unconscious
wants to
forget – I will only try to remember)
Discipline – Concentration
my body is my body
every part of it. »
(1955).
Marilyn Monroe, Fragments (poèmes, écrits intimes, lettres) , Editions du Seuil, 2010.
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