Лучшие книги Ричарда Хелла

Произведение, о котором не самый конформистский человек на свете Уильям Гибсон сказал так: "Книга мерзкая, отвратительная, скабрезная, непростительная... Это надо читать!"
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Новелла "Пустоид" (1973) - дебют основателя музыкального панк-движения Ричарда Хелла в литературе, и его обостренное восприятие действительности и потусторонних вещей словно возвращает нас во времена "проклятых поэтов", Рембо и Лотреамона, когда индивидуальность ценилась больше, чем когда-либо, а творческий прорыв приводил к тотальному самоотречению.

The sharp, lyrical, and no-holds-barred autobiography of the iconoclastic writer and musician Richard Hell, charting the childhood, coming of age, and misadventures of an artist in an indelible era of rock and roll...

From an early age, Richard Hell dreamed of running away. His father died when he was seven, and at seventeen he left his mother and sister behind and headed for New York City, place of limitless possibilities. He arrived penniless with the idea of becoming a poet; ten years later he was a pivotal voice of the age of punk, starting such seminal bands as Television, the Heartbreakers, and Richard Hell and the Voidoids—whose song "Blank Generation" remains the defining anthem of the era. Hell was significantly responsible for creating CBGB as punk ground zero; his Voidoids toured notoriously with the Clash, and Malcolm McLaren would credit Hell as inspiration for the Sex Pistols. There were kinetic nights in New York's club demi-monde, descent into drug addiction, and an ever-present yearning for redemption through poetry, music, and art.

"We lived in the suburbs in America in the fifties," Hell writes. "My roots are shallow. I'm a little jealous of people with strong ethnic and cultural roots. Lucky Martin Scorsese or Art Spiegelman or Dave Chappelle. I came from Hopalong Cassidy and Bugs Bunny and first grade at ordinary Maxwell Elementary." How this legendary downtown artist went from a prosaic childhood in the idyllic Kentucky foothills to igniting a movement that would take over New York's and London's restless youth cultures—and spawn the careers of not only Hell himself, but a cohort of friends such as Tom Verlaine, Patti Smith, the Ramones, and Debbie Harry—is just part of the fascinating story Hell tells. With stunning powers of observation, he delves into the details of both the world that shaped him and the world he shaped.

An acutely rendered, unforgettable coming-of-age story, I Dreamed I Was a Very Clean Tramp evokes with feeling, clarity, and piercing intelligence that classic journey: the life of one who comes from the hinterlands into the city in search of art and passion.

On the road with the Blank Generation, "Go Now" takes readers on a wild trip across the country and into the head of a down-on-his-luck punk musician. ""Go Now" is a vile, scabrous, unforgivable, and deserving of the widest possible audience".--William Gibson.

Legendary writer, artist and punk rock innovator Richard Hell's second novel is a stunning achievement and quite likely his most important work in any medium to date. Combining the grit, wit and daring narrative drive of his acclaimed first novel Go Now with the charged lyricism and emotional implosiveness of his groundbreaking music, Godlike is both an important novel and a dazzling, heartbreaking examination of what it means to be an artist in an America of idiots, thieves and liars.

Hot and Cold: The Works of Richard Hell is a stupendous compendium of poetry, prose, photography, illustrations, interviews, essays, lyrics, and more by acclaimed artist, author, and rock star, Richard Hell. Since he first came to public attention in the 1970s, Richard Hell has made a spectacular if specialized reputation for himself in every conceivable medium—from music, painting, and photography to fashion, design, and writing. A man with a vision, Hell was the Prophet of Punk: the originator of the spiked haircut; ripped, drawn-on, safety-pinned clothes; and the seminal punk anthems “Love Comes in Spurts” and “(I Belong to the) Blank Generation.”

“I came back to England determined. I had these images that I came back with, it was like Marco Polo, or Walter Raleigh. These are the things I brought back: the image of this distressed, strange thing called Richard Hell. And this phrase, ‘the blank generation.’”
—Malcolm McLaren

Von fr?hester Jugend an tr?umte Richard Hell davon abzuhauen, was er dann auch mit siebzehn tat. Er landete im New Yorker East Village, in den sechziger und siebziger Jahren ein Ort mit billigen Mieten und tausend M?glichkeiten. Er arbeitete als Buchh?ndler und wurde Dichter, der sich in der K?nstlerszene herumtrieb, in der Feminismus, Androgynie und Transvestismus in der Luft lag, bevor er einer der wichtigsten Figuren in der neuen Musikszene wurde. F?r Malcolm McLaren war er die Inspiration f?r das, was er mit den Sex Pistols dann verwirklichte. Richard Hell erinnert sich schonungslos an seine Drogenabh?ngigkeit und wie er sich daraus befreite, und es gelingen ihm gro?artige Portr?ts der damaligen Kunst- und Musikszene.