tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post7771044337607105251..comments2024-03-27T16:48:21.039-05:00Comments on Wuthering <br>Expectations: When the painter is a writer in disguiseAmateur Reader (Tom)http://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comBlogger6125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-6002090478639871002008-05-13T21:56:00.000-05:002008-05-13T21:56:00.000-05:00Jacqueline, it's definitely partly that - the writ...Jacqueline, it's definitely partly that - the writer disguising himself. Mostly, perhaps. But in some cases the artist is a different writer-in-disguise - not the author, but one of the author's enemies. The Balzac examples are more like the latter.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-87981348123015578682008-05-13T10:17:00.000-05:002008-05-13T10:17:00.000-05:00I see what you're saying. Isn't it that writers o...I see what you're saying. Isn't it that writers often project parts of themselves into their characters? Having a painter as a character could just be a surface-level issue, a facade to hide the writer's self from his/her readers...Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-74944567465575900322008-05-08T10:45:00.000-05:002008-05-08T10:45:00.000-05:00In the 19th century, it's all painters and compose...In the 19th century, it's all painters and composers, painters and composers. 20th century writers expanded their reach. I can see how quilting and sewing would be metaphorically rich, at the least. <BR/><BR/>A piece of writing that turned my head on this issue was Paul Johnson's chapter on Christian Dior in <EM>The Creators</EM>, which convincingly took Dior seriously as a creative person. Not an artist, necessarily, but still a person of enormous creativity.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-13507180448476759252008-05-07T20:48:00.000-05:002008-05-07T20:48:00.000-05:00There are lots of contemporary pop novels in which...There are lots of contemporary pop novels in which fiber arts are a metaphor for life or community or mending one soul together or something. While quilting or knitting plays a major part in many such books, I can't think of one of them in which the subject is really the creative process or could be considered a surrogate for writing, although some toy with the obvious metaphors of spinning a tale or weaving plots together.Sparkling Squirrelhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10899640164757220074noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-89104961214509631202008-05-07T14:27:00.000-05:002008-05-07T14:27:00.000-05:00I was just wondering what novels had been written ...I was just wondering what novels had been written about less glamorous artists (craftsmen), and then you point me towards Urquhart's <EM>The Stone Carvers</EM>.Amateur Reader (Tom)https://www.blogger.com/profile/13675275555757408496noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3383938214852108244.post-7859478522342730152008-05-06T13:56:00.000-05:002008-05-06T13:56:00.000-05:00I can see the author wanting to explore notions of...I can see the author wanting to explore notions of creativity but not wanting to be so bald as to write about his/herself and the specific writing process, so this makes sense. I'm trying to think of other examples and drawing a complete blank except for contemporary writer Jane Urquhart. Two of her novels have centered on an artist as the main character and I'd like to consider whether this idea would apply. And whether applying it might be useful step toward a deeper understanding of her work. Hmmmm.<BR/>Form? Send me a buoy!Anonymousnoreply@blogger.com