Kafka's Crow
03-26-2012, 05:27 AM
Just finished listening to this memoir by Antonia Fraser. Whatever people say and said about her (in)famous affair with Pinter, about her credentials as a historian and a biographer, I think this book is a good investment of time. A very, very literary couple living their life in artistic and aristocratic circles simultaneously, at times I thought she was name-dropping. They meet everybody from Samuel Beckett to Princess Diana, and have almost everybody in their circle of friends, from Salman Rushdie to Simon Gray (Pinter's best friend). Still an interesting life though she feels very wooden and thoughtless in her reflections.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Must-You-Go-Harold-Pinter/dp/0753828782/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
More interestingly, as soon as I finished Must You Go? I started listening to Within a Budding Grove with these lines in the very first paragraph:
"...but that Swann, with his ostentation, his habit of crying aloud from the housetops the name of everyone that he knew, however slightly, was an impossible vulgarian whom the Marquis de Norpois would be sure to dismiss as--to use his own epithet--a 'pestilent' fellow." :p
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Must-You-Go-Harold-Pinter/dp/0753828782/ref=cm_cr_pr_product_top
More interestingly, as soon as I finished Must You Go? I started listening to Within a Budding Grove with these lines in the very first paragraph:
"...but that Swann, with his ostentation, his habit of crying aloud from the housetops the name of everyone that he knew, however slightly, was an impossible vulgarian whom the Marquis de Norpois would be sure to dismiss as--to use his own epithet--a 'pestilent' fellow." :p