[스크랩] 가수와 뮤즈, 디지털 시대의 은유

The Song Is You

by Arthur Phillips

 

야심 많은 가수겸 작곡가와

그녀의 음악에서 삶의 동기를 찾으면서

아울러 그녀에게 영감을 주는

팬 사이에 맺어지는 간접적인

상호의존적 관계를 다룬다.

 

이 소설을 읽기 시작했는 데

수퍼맘님께서 서평을 읽으시고

작품이 디지털 시대의 관계성을 조명하는

메타포(은유)라는 점을 지적하셨다 (댓글 참조).

 

블로그 세계 안의 관계성과도 쉽사리

연관지어 볼 수 있다. 작품 안에서 음악이

중점적 역할을 하는 데, 블로그 세계 안에서

음악은 얼굴을 모르는 이들을 이리저리

맺어준다.

 

다움 블로그들은

디지털 관계성의

개척자들인가?!

 

 

<Jason Munn for New York Times> 

 

수퍼맘님께서 Michiko Kakutani의 리뷰를 찾아주셨다.

"When Admiration Turns into Obsession"

New York Times (April 6, 2009)

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/07/books/07kaku.html

 

<<What awakens Julian from his emotional slumber are

some songs by a young Irish singer named Cait O’Dwyer,

a tough, talented and about to become-wildly famous musician.

An ardent music junkie who is almost permanently plugged into his iPod,

Julian becomes mesmerized by her songs, and soon by Cait herself.

He leaves some directorial advice, scribbled on some coasters,

for her at the local club she plays, but declines to meet her in person.

Soon he is following her on the Web (through her own Web site and others)

and has tracked down her address in Brooklyn,

lurking and ogling without ringing the bell.>>

 

다음은 수퍼맘님께서 지적하신 서평의 핵심 부분입니다.  

<<No doubt Julian and Cait’s dancing around each other

without meeting for months is meant as a kind of metaphor

for relationships in the digital age, where e-mail, text messages 

and other electronic communications take the place of

face-to-face encounters, but it feels hokey and contrived.>>

 

Kate Christensen의 서평

"Always on My Mind"

New York Times Sunday Book Review (April 10, 2009)

 

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/04/12/books/review/Christensen-t.html?_r=1

 

<<When the novel opens, Julian is a New York-based advertising director

whose marriage has fallen apart after the death of his 2-year-old son.

Aimlessly adrift in a snowstorm one night, he wanders into a Brooklyn bar and

happens to hear a young Irish singer named Cait O’Dwyer:

"She sang with her eyes closed, and her dark red hair fell over her face until

she pushed it away with both hands.' Julian's canny director's eye

fuses with his broken heart and turns him into not just a fan but

a would-be muse. He stumbles home with her demo.>>

 

<<Julian is looking for something to buoy him; Cait is vulnerable, impressionable,

insecure but talented, ambitious, driven — the young-artist mishmash of

contradictory traits. He needs her. She needs him. So of course,

without ever meeting, they fall in love.>>

 

<<For example, after Julian allows himself to wallow in wistfulness,

watching Cait sing, Phillips writes: “Another song ended. . . . Two months ago,

she was raw and unblended; tonight she was reasonably effective;

someday very soon she would be in danger of marbling over into a slick

cast impression of herself. The target was only microns wide, and

history’s great singers may simply have been those who

happened to make a record in the brief time

between learning and forgetting

how to manage their power.”>>

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