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the Literary Saloon: Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art
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"we must love each other or die... of embarrassment" http://bit.ly/FoIUX 4 days ago |
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His new play, "The Habit of Art" RT @sfsutcliffe: Enter, finally, the real Alan Bennett - The Observer | http://bit.ly/3z0TKh #thinkingart 12 days ago |
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Alan Bennett's The Habit of Art
the Literary Saloon —
... ) -- with Richard Griffiths taking over the Auden-role because of Michael Gambon's indisposition -- and in The Observer Tim Adams profiles him, in Enter, finally, the real Alan Bennett. ...
to find oneself: the Alan Bennett way
Baroque in Hackney —
... From Tim Adams’ interesting article about the always-interesting Alan Bennett:
“For a long time, years even,” Bennett recently wrote, “it seemed to me I had nothing to put into what I wrote; and nor had I. I did not yet appreciate you do not put yourself into what you write, you find yourself there.”
It seems that his new Auden/Britten play, The Habit of Art, is largely about how you find yourself in it. But in a practical sense that will be hard to do; tickets are virtually unobtainable now. ...
More on Bennett and his Habit of Art
Maud Newton —
... For Alan Bennett, like a Borges character, “All the books he ever published filled him with a complex feeling of repentance.” ...
Silliman's Blog — ... Following the road to the Nambikwara A Claude Lévi-Strauss gallery Sontag’s Lévi-Strauss § Strucuralist villanelle § Talking with Philip Roth § Bennett’s Auden, Auden’s Bennett Bennett’s Gielgud ...
