Dedication to a book for his son. A simple sentence confirmed Rachel Samstat’s suspicions. unfaithfulness from her husband Markhad never been exactly a champion of common sense. In fact, he came across these words while searching his drawers for clues, convinced that there was another woman he hadn’t invited into his marriage. In fact, what surprised her the most was that a few days ago, she had been eating at home with her husband, who was already aware of what was going on, and she had asked him for the recipe for pineapple cake. that you serve it as dessert. . Mark admitted he was in love with his girlfriend, so he took his two-year-old son and flew from Washington to his home city of New York. She was seven months pregnant.
that’s how it starts the cake is finishedfamous novel nora ephon Published in 1983 and now back in bookstores, translated into Spanish for Anagrama by Benito Gómez Ibáñez and with a collection of essays crazy salad from 1975. Both books were in the publisher’s catalog decades ago, but have only been available second-hand (and by chance) until now. It’s been a good year for the giant fan base writer and screenwriter, because a few months ago the publishing house Libros del Asteroid saved I don’t remember anythingAnother essay book published in English in 2010, translated by Catalina Martínez Muñoz. It was the last work he published while alive, since he died two years later.
The novel was so successful that it was adapted into a movie in 1986, which he directed. Mike Nichols. Chosen to interpret the heroes Meryl Streep Y Jack Nicholson maybe Dustin Hoffman it could be better. After all, he played Carl Bernstein. All the President’s men (Alan J. Pakula, 1976), one of the journalists in the Watergate case and Nora Ephron’s ex-husband. His infidelity was an open secret, especially in circles close to the power of the White House, so Ephron decided to take the reins of the story and tell it all in his novel. As always, he followed his mother’s wise advice: “If you step on a banana peel, you will hurt yourself and others may laugh at you; but if you’re the narrator, you take control of the story and you’re the one who makes people laugh”.
It is not a mechanism that hides the reader or the reader. In the book, the psychologist asks Rachel. second selfWhy do you think you need to tell everything, and your answer could not be clearer: “Because, If I tell the story, I master the version. Because if I tell the story, I can make people laugh; Y I’d rather they laugh than pity meno. Because if I tell the story, it won’t hurt that much.” Ephron puts out the dirty laundry of that husband (including the trick of ascribing other people’s jokes to their articles) and the previous husband, who was also unfaithful. “I can’t feel sorry for myself. I can’t stand feeling like a victim. I can’t stand to be hopeless. I can’t stand to sit here with all this anger that makes me suffer and cry, I CAN’T STAY WITHOUT SPEAKING!” .
Despite the pain of the story, Ephron divorce book finally gave him the joy of an amazing sales figure as well as recognition. something that is not rachel cusk Despite the popularity of his book remains. About marriage and separation Harvested in England in 2012. In less than 200 pages, the author tells in the first person how the separation process of lawyer and photographer Adrian Clarke, who is the father of his second wife and two daughters, went through. At the same time, she reflects on the normative model of the family, gender roles, and its contradictions as a feminist (although it is more her husbands who use the phrase “And you call yourself a feminist” in response to just about everything) in her usual straightforward and direct demeanor. direct style. without cheating. Libros del Asteroide publishing house published the book translated by Catalina Martínez Muñoz in Spain in 2020.
“My husband believed I was being monstrous to him. There was no one to get the idea out of his head: his whole world depended on it. That was his story, and for a while I started to hate stories,” Cusk says in his book. Like Ephron, he tried to take control of his story, but it backfired. ruins angered the audienceaccusing her of being a bad feminist, narcissist, and giving too many details about what happened. On the other hand, Accused of not disclosing the reason for the breakup. Literary critic Camilla Long came to say, “As you write, tell it all.” on Sundays.
Now, Libros del Asteroid hits the market It’s a lifetime job. On the experience of being a motherThe book, first published in English in 2010, is the book that made the brown mess for explaining what motherhood means in the UK as well – according to its critics – in the first person and very rudely. His book on divorce in Spain did not cause any controversy, and it would be strange if the next one, but these are sensitive topics and the author has a magnet for fighting.
The inspiration for divorce
The previous two titles are just two examples of the many works that emerged from emotional breakups. They even gave birth to their own genre in music: divorce record. Of course, the always mentioned, Blood on the Rails (1975) who Bob Dylan Composed as a result of her breakup with Sara Lownds, but her story hear dear (1977) Very Juicy by Marvin Gaye. When the spendthrift artist couldn’t find the million dollars Anna Gordy had demanded from her in the divorce, her lawyer came up with a creative solution: would pay him $600,000, half of which would come from the advance of his next album.and the remainder of the profit from the business in question. The result was 75 minutes of anger, reproaches, disappointment, and heartbreak, tuned to music that sold little at the time and didn’t serve to settle debt at the time.
The newer album Adel Published in November 2021 titled 30explaining the reasons for the divorce simon konecki their 10-year-old son, whom they have together. The idea is that she gets it when she’s older, but the main person involved, her ex-husband, didn’t have to wait for anything to hear them in chorus. fans Shakira -and celebrity gossips in general- are waiting for their next album, which is supposed to be an album. pike divorce. He currently has an advance in the form of a song with Rauw Alejandro. I congratulate youwith subtle lines like “don’t tell me you’re sorry / that seems sincere, but I know you well and I know you’re lying”.
In many cases, when a supposedly work of fiction is a work of fiction, the creators deny that it is based on real events, even though coincidences are all too obvious. This situation, for example, Noah Baumbach with his movie a marriage story Starring Scarlett Johansson and Adam Driver (2019). The plot, too much to be autobiographical, is very similar to his relationship with actress Jennifer Jason Leigh, now his ex-wife and mother of his son. His ex-wife was born in California and met Baumbach on Broadway, as in the movie. They lived in New York until they broke up. and Jason Leigh returned to his country with the child, and as in the movie, the director had to cross the United States to see his son.
It was Sofia Coppola who announced that she based her own breakup on the script.. In 2013, when she divorced Spike Jonze, she premiered. Lost in Translation, The heroine – also Scarlett Johansson – finds herself alone in Tokyo as her photographer husband spends the day working. The scenarios, situations and feelings of loneliness represented in the film are the same as what happened in reality and they are doomed to the failure of their marriage. Ten years later, Jonze made the movie. HE ISthat some would like to see as a replica of his ex-wife, but he has said nothing either for or against this theory.