憂鬱になる結末

 

Hanya Yanagihara: ‘I have the right to write about whatever I want’ https://t.co/DvBf6jUUCf

— suzuky (@suzuky) January 9, 2022

Victoria Beckham and Dua Lipa declared themselves fans, while an equally passionate group of readers condemned it as gratuitous, even “evil”

 

Hanya Yanagihara From Wikipedia,

The People in the Trees

From Wikipedia

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A Little Life

From Wikipedia

With his close friend and lover dead, Jude descends once again into self-destructive habits, losing such an excessive amount of weight that his remaining loved ones stage another intervention. Though they are able to get him to gain weight and to attend therapy, years of depression and despair finally overtake Jude, and he takes his own life.

いやああ・・・・両方とも憂鬱になる結末ですなああ・・・こりゃ。

For Yanagihara this play with naming represents one of many negotiations with America’s idea of itself. “We’re often renaming things in the United States, either to eradicate a bad memory or to try to dissociate it from a person who history has not treated kindly or who deserves to be treated with more respect. 

ラベルを変えて誤魔化すってどこの国でもやっているんだね。日本だと「実習生制度」とか・・・

This ugly American behaviour which I can see in myself is kind of what people expect. Especially if you are a non-white American, you will never feel more American than that when you go back to the country of your ancestry, as I do to Japan.”

日系人は日本にくると自分がアメリカ人であることをさらに自覚するわけですね。

 She is particularly impatient with the #ownvoice movement, which might question her right, as a woman, to tell the stories of gay men. “It’s very dangerous. I have the right to write about whatever I want. The only thing a reader can judge is whether I have done so well or not.”

What is #ownvoices?
By Gwen Vanderhage, MLIS

Posted on August 21, 2019 i

 #ownvoices is a hashtag movement, started on Twitter, used to recommend books about diverse characters that have been written by authors from that same diverse group.

そういえば、

↓の一連のツイートを読んで「ここまで脚本が違うだなんて」と驚かれた方に、もう一点だけ どうしても知っておいて頂きたい、日本の業界人が現状ではその「存在」にすら気付いていない、世界から完全に取り残されている「とある弱点」があります。それは「当事者による表象(ひょうしょう)」です(続 https://t.co/UWjEDc9jUU

— Yuki Matsuzaki 松崎悠希 (@Yuki_Mats) January 6, 2022

というのがあったけど・・・

ーー当事者グループによる語り、当事者グループによる演技・・・それはそれで価値があるけど、それじゃなくちゃ駄目だ、というのもなああ・・・・・まあ、アメリカの場合、白人俳優ばっか使うというのもまずいわけだし、マイノリティーをコケにするような語りや演出もまずいけど・・・・作品って・・・虚構なんだからなああ・・・・ あるいは、真実を暴く虚構とでも言おうか・・・本物だからといって真実を暴けるとは限らんしなああ

“I was always interested in the disease, not the human,” she told one interviewer.

・・・おれとは合わんな。

なんか、傷口をじっと見ていることが好きそうなタイプやな・・・ 

“I’ve really thought about how young America is as a nation,” says Yanagihara. “Despite the frustration and despair – even in countries like France, which pretend they don’t care about it – there is such an admiration for America. It’s our vitality, our childlike qualities, you know – our optimism and generosity, but also our spoiltness, our tantrum-throwing, our inwardness, our myopia. I really do think of it as a precocious and quite bratty child, heading into adolescence: every quality that you would admire in that child and every quality that will frustrate you exists within America as well.”

わりに適切なアメリカ観。 

たしかにクソ生意気なガキンチョの活力は魅力的といえばいえるんだろうが・・・あまりにも自己中心的すぎるな・・・若気の至りなのか・・・