Summary
Sam Shepard: First Person Spy
"Posthumously published memoir fiction, as some critics classify it, First Person Spy arranges images of the past and present from the life of the protagonist that contain kaleidoscopic beauty. The narrator is not superior to the reader; some parts of the story are as unclear to him as to others, because his vision is very specific - that of the edge of duration, which forces him to see the details of his life in some That's why there is the Other, his observer, and someone who evaluates both the narrator's physical state and his credibility in the story. The problem arises when we realize that the reliability of their stories is not their forte. The sequences from the family life, the anecdotes that are left behind in some corner of the consciousness, are the material from which this simultaneously tragic and comic work is made.
a lone rider who observes the space in front of him with the intention of seeing his own place in it, as well as everything that could represent a threat, is a western archetype that unmistakably frames the character and work of Sam Shepard... It is difficult to reduce such a life to a few paragraphs, to a Wikipedia listing of what he recorded and published, to a Pulitzer Prize and an Oscar nomination. One thing is certain - the arc of time, from the day when the starving Steve Rogers He donates his blood to New York so that he can buy a cheeseburger, until the day when Sam Shepard dictates the last sentences of Spy from the first person, he embraces the fullness, consistency of his own sense of language and reality, immersion in true emotion, no matter how painful it may be."
Ivana Đurić Paunović, from Pogovor
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