Savannah Knoop escribe
Todos recordarán el fraude JT Leroy, comentado varias veces en este Moleskine Literario, aquel supuesto escritor transexual que convirtió su traumática adolescencia en obras llenas de dolor y cinismo. Detrás de esos escritos estaba Laura Albert, su manager, y a JT Leroy (que se presentaba siempre con peluca y anteojos negros) lo representeba en sus apariciones públicas una pariente del ex novio de Albert, la actriz adolescente Savannah Knoop. Ha pasado el tiempo y la decepción por la obra de Leroy, y ahora Knoop ha decidido publicar sus memorias bajo el título: Girl Boy Girl: How I Became JT LeRoy. Aparecerán en octubre pero ya empezó la controversia. Laura Albert dice que Savannah Knoop no se puede apropiar de JT Leroy pues la creadora es ella, y que esas memorias son tan fraudulentas como su propio truco. Gregory Cowles, en Paper Cuts, se hace una serie de preguntas pertinentes al respecto:
But it does raise vexing questions about authenticity and art. If somebody loves a novel, does it really matter whether the author has an interesting life story? A memoir is one thing — as nonfiction, even “creative” nonfiction, it’s that much closer to journalism and the resulting assumption of truth — but really, a novel? The other arts struggle with similar issues, of course. There are people who refuse to listen to Wagner (or Eminem) on political grounds rather than musical ones: the life interferes with the work. And in a fascinating documentary, “My Kid Could Paint That,” the filmmaker Amir Bar-Lev asks the same questions about visual art, through the story of a 4-year-old girl who attracted huge attention and eventually huge price tags for abstract paintings that may or may not have been her own work. Once suspicions were raised, interest dried up and the prices fell. Same paintings, different back story: like the JT LeRoy episode, the Marla paintings suggest that we find it extremely hard to separate a work of art from what we know — or think we know — about its creation.
Etiquetas: eeuu, jt leroy, knoop, laura albert, NOTICIA
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