American Joyce Carol Oates (Lockport, 1938)The author of the novel ‘Blonde’ is one of the authors whose name has been circulating with Nobel enthusiasm for decades. If it hasn’t so far, it’s not because it hasn’t produced a huge body of work—its numerous opponents, who have them, will say they’re too big, need at least three editors. he literary publications of his narrative, poetry and more experimental works are ‘too much’ and demanding, as a result of two or three publications a year. book at the origin of lAndrew Dominic’s movie Caused such a stir, it was released in the United States in 2000 to mixed reviews.
On the one hand, it was one of the Pulitzer favorites, it won. National Book Award it has been hailed as yet another example of the great American novel—an intellect hitherto exclusive only to them, male novelists. On the other hand, the ‘mother of all critics’, among others, received tremendous support from ‘The New York Times’ mighty Michiko Kakutani—not to be confused with her Japanese name, she is American. The novel is in a few terms very similar to those now used for the movie, with accusations that Marilyn “had a mercenary purpose to sensationalize her story.”
between the girl and the legend
When Oates published his novel, he had been chasing Marilyn’s ghost for some time. Especially in 2015, it was revealed to him through a photograph that Norma Jeane, a high school student who had just won a beauty pageant and dreamed of a future, was far from imagining what it would be like. In that void, the girl she was, and the myth of using, throwing, and destroying she eventually became, built this terrifying novel.
In an interview with ‘Time’ magazine, Oates revealed that he wanted to do something with ‘Blonde’ similar to what Melville did with ‘Moby Dick’. Both are epics with a ritualized sacrifice in them. The whale is the victim of nature, the other the victim of masculine fantasies sanctified by the Hollywood system of the 20th century. clearly in the novel. Oates wrote a work of fiction, a gothic fairy tale with a bad ending.and he makes it clear in the preface because even then, even when we didn’t read it to the letter as we do 20 years ago, I knew it wouldn’t be interpreted well.
Another major failure of Oates against his critics, direct and painful way of using violenceCould it be because she’s a woman? The North American owes him some of the most irresistible reading pages on the subject and its consequences. The issue of rape obsessively haunts their stories. For Oates, a delicate-looking woman with the face of a good witch, the original sin of relationships between men and women is rape. His idea is If we are victims, why not own the story? He was accused of ‘bloody’ and misread, by reducing his intentions to mere spectacle. 20 years ago, when ‘Me Too’ was still far away, she prophesiedly revealed that actresses’ bodies were being used in an obscene manner by unwanted producers.
Do I need to add that? very brave woman tirelessly building his business and the first person to stand out on Twitter despite not being featured in the script for Dominik’s movie—Oates not only tirelessly writes books, but also tweets like a machine gun to this?: “Marilyn’s John F. Kennedy’s brutal exploitation is well known to biographers, but for some viewers the on-screen treatment is difficult to watch, so they advise you not to watch it,” he wrote ironically. There is only one way to make a correct judgment: read and see.