PERIODISM. Published in 1971 by Hunter S. Thompson I’m going and I’m going to Las Vegasobra cumbre del feroz and experiential “Periodismo Gonzo”. Without wondering many times in zambullida the horror of calling Ciudad del Pecado, but rather from the position of investigator and witness, John Gregory Dunne (1932-2003), in the midst of a personal and nervous crisis, spent six months, around a hot day, in the early 1970s in the world capital of gambling, prostitution and entertainment.
He felt, as I wrote, an “emotional paraplegic”, caught in a “pathological distance” from others, who included his wife, also a journalist, author and journalist. Joan Didion (1934-2021). What Dunne wanted—besides reflection, reassurance, and, surprisingly, some peace—was to write a great report about the city.
Finally, according to the New Period techniques he shared with his wife, the result arrived Vegas. Chronicle of a Bad Rachaa novel told in the first person complete detailed information about prostitutioncasinos and comedians. It was published in 1974 and now appears in Gatopard with an extraordinary translation by Javier Calvo.
HORMIGUERO. Dunne, magazine trained Time and what you posted Studies (1969), a scathing book about Fox, is interested not only in the black mobsters who inspired gangster Benjamin “Bugsy” Siegel, but also in the pie people who make a living, pleasure and diversion in the hormiguero beltthis monstrous thing kitsch the neon lights and disparate buildings of the Las Vegas neural center, “a genetic version of hell.”
Dunne, born in Hartford (Connecticut) in a good family of Irish origin, a Chinese boy with tangible shades of his long Catholic education, graduated from the excellent Princeton University, and to give a clue to the words of the despicable “bad racha” he met, he put on his feet next to the secondary important characters: the private detective Arte, the prostitute Ghao. and Jackie Casey’s comic monologue with all these friends and their strengths, amidst the most dramatic pathos and humor, excellent narrative episodes of magnificent prose.
The novel uses crude language to describe the environment of prostitution, games and spectacle
Dunne advises you Vegas e.g “a work of fiction that recalls both real and imagined periods”. Make sure Artha, Jackie and Buster don’t exist. He says that “I’m more or less a ‘yo’; they’re ellos in less medicine”. But camouflages and inventions aside, it is clearer that it is much the same, and that they are created by the synthesis and reasoning of people who dealt with and beyond what was mythical.
Dunne describes in depth, with care and crude language, the mechanisms, the tricks, the corruption, the fauna and milieu of prostitution, the game and the spectacle, the land of aspirations, dreams (rotos, many times) and great misery in the cogs of the life-crushing machine.
The gas that drives this machine – as Dunne reminds – also among tourists, are mainly thousands and thousands of company employees and professionals who They celebrate their conventions every year in Las Vegas and you are willing to go to all the pools.
HEART HEART. John Gregory Dunne, son of novelist Dominick Dunne (of his work at Asteroid Books) and son of actor/director Griffin Dunne, suffered a catastrophic heart attack in 2003 while his adopted son, Quintana, was in a coma in the hospital. Joan Didion wrote about this harsh experience to the giant maestro, A year of magical thinking
(2005).
Casados from 1964 – certainly in the Spanish mission that appears in Vertigo -, Dunne and Didion wrote many articles together and segments of five films, some as important as Panic in Needle Park (1971, with Al Pacino) y Verdaderas confesiones (1981, with Robert de Niro), an adaptation of the writer’s best canonical novel.
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