Congratulations to Alison Croggon, winner of this year's Pascall Prize for criticism. bLOGOS/HA HA first read this news not online, not in a blog, but in the smudge and wrinkle of the daily paper as is our habit.
Yesterday, Mark Holsworth at Melbourne Art & Culture Critic also addressed this topic.
The impact of blogs is growing. Contrary to the mainstream media blogs are not simply source of gossip and unsubstantiated claims. Many blogs contain first hand reports from educated and informed correspondents. Many blogs appear to be the very essence of traditional journalism. In the golden age of print journalism there would be a writer at every play, exhibition and concert. Now, in the dying days of print journalism unless a blogger reviews it, it is unlikely to be reviewed...Also yesterday, re-reading some of Alison Croggon's writing:
( full article here )
When bL read this,
My feeling is that if you're uninterested in Beckett, you're uninterested in art. And yet of all artists, he is surely the least compulsory: no one took more responsibility for his writing - poems, prose, criticism, plays - while making the least claims for it. "I produce an object," he said of his plays. "What people make of it is not my concern." He might have agreed with the poet Paul Celan, who said that his work was "a message in a bottle, sent out in the - not always greatly hopeful - belief that somewhere and sometime it could wash up on land, on heartland perhaps". Beckett's uncompromising, strangely tender bleakness has the kind of truthfulness which makes him, of all playwrights, the least biddable to the commercial vulgarities of theatre.bL remembered this image of a LOGOS in a bottle
Review: Beckett's Shorts ( full article here )
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Undelivered mail of World War soldiers
(crucifix in bottle)
July 28, 1925. Washington, D.C.
