The life of the author
- Mune
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Re: The life of the author
- ebethina
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Just don't make enough of them now. Thinking George Orwell or Ernest Hemingway or Ian Fleming.
Hard to think of a modern equivalent to those chaps!
If something happens to an Author in their own lives that changes perception, I suppose we must remember that when they wrote a good book, the thing that changed our perceptions perhaps had not happened yet.
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Just the same way I don't judge Michael Jackson's music based off his life.
One's creative world can be separate from their own life.
Just because of events in their life - doesn't change the validity of their work.
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That said, I generally avoid delving into the personal lives of authors, artists, and composers. Because if I learn they are jerks in real life, that tends to color the way I view their art.