The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's "Note-books." The story was published in "Collier's" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati: "Sir-- I have read the story Benjamin Button in Colliers and I wish to say that as a short story writer you would make a good lunatic I have seen many peices of cheese in my life but of all the peices of cheese I have ever seen you are the biggest peice. I hate to waste a peice of stationary on you but I will."
This story was inspired by a remark of Mark Twain's to the effect that it was a pity that the best part of life came at the beginning and the worst part at the end. By trying the experiment upon only one man in a perfectly normal world I have scarcely given his idea a fair trial. Several weeks after completing it, I discovered an almost identical plot in Samuel Butler's "Note-books." The story was published in "Collier's" last summer and provoked this startling letter from an anonymous admirer in Cincinnati: "Sir-- I have read the story Benjamin Button in Colliers and I wish to say that as a short story writer you would make a good lunatic I have seen many peices of cheese in my life but of all the peices of cheese I have ever seen you are the biggest peice. I hate to waste a peice of stationary on you but I will."
Bol Partner'Ik ben geboren onder bijzondere omstandigheden.' Dat is het begin van The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, gebaseerd op het verhaal uit de jaren twintig van F. Scott Fitzgerald over een man die geboren wordt op zijn tachtigste en vervolgens steeds jonger wordt. Vanaf zijn geboorte in New Orleans in 1918, via de grote vaart en het bombardement op Pearl Harbor weer terug naar huis is de opmerkelijke reis van Benjamin eigenlijk net zo gewoon als die van iedereen. The Curious Case of Benjamin Button, geregisseerd door David Fincher (Zodiac, Fight Club) met in de hoofdrollen Brad Pitt en Cate Blanchett als het omgekeerd evenredige koppel Benjamin en Daisy, is een avontuurlijke reis door de tijd naar de geneugten van het leven, het verdriet om de dood en een liefde die de tand des tijds doorstaat.Tijdsduur 159 minuten
FnacNunzio de Fillipis (Auteur) Francis Scott Fitzgerald (Auteur) - Verschenen op 20/10/2009 bij Quirk Books
AmazonPages: 28, Paperback, Martino Fine Books
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