Лучшие книги Боба Дилана

В «Хрониках» Дилан рассказывает, как зарождалась легенда – первые записи, первые знакомства, первый успех, первая слава. Это рассказ о становлении Поэта: что на него повлияло и как он позже повлиял на всю американскую жизнь, не только литературную. Воспоминания музыканта позволят заглянуть в его творческую кухню и прочувствовать дух времени, когда музыканты-поэты собирали стадионы.

О чём же поведает Боб Дилан в «Тарантуле»? С точностью ответить на этот вопрос не сможет даже внимательный читатель. Можно ли четко описать хаос, поток сознания, образы, рожденные в разгорячённой голове? А чувства – можно ли проделать подобное с ними? Глубокая трагичность восприятия и изощрённая игра мысли по-настоящему привлекают в «Тарантуле» и в то же самое время не дают понять его до конца. Но критики и поклонники Дилана едины в одном – каждый найдёт в этом страшном и одновременно смешном романе нечто своё.

Боб Дилан — американский певец и поэт, чье творчество публикой и критикой отнесено к разряду исключительных. Представитель контркультуры, автор социальных и политических песен и один из самых коммерчески успешных исполнителей в мире, он почти полвека остается влиятельнейшей фигурой в американской культуре. Обладатель «Грэмми», «Оскара», Боб Дилан был отмечен Нобелевской премией по литературе 2016 года «за создание новых поэтических выражений в великой американской песенной традиции». Эта награда вызвала немало недоуменных откликов. Но нет ничего лучше, чем самостоятельно проверить, насколько же прав был Нобелевский комитет, прочитав тексты Боба Дилана. Их русскому читателю представляют поэты, музыканты, художники — те люди, для которых Творчество не просто слово, а смысл жизни.

would not anticipate a conventional memoir from Bob Dylan--indeed, one would not have foreseen an autobiography at all from the pen of the notoriously private legend. What Chronicles: Volume 1 delivers is an odd but ultimately illuminating memoir that is as impulsive, eccentric, and inspired as Dylan's greatest music.

Eschewing chronology and skipping over most of the "highlights" that his many biographers have assigned him, Dylan drifts and rambles through his tale, amplifying a series of major and minor epiphanies. If you're interested in a behind-the-scenes look at his encounters with the Beatles, look elsewhere. Dylan describes the sensation of hearing the group's "Do You Want to Know a Secret" on the radio, but devotes far more ink to a Louisiana shopkeeper named Sun Pie, who tells him, "I think all the good in the world might already been done" and sells him a World's Greatest Grandpa bumper sticker. Dylan certainly sticks to his own agenda--a newspaper article about journeymen heavyweights Jerry Quarry and Jimmy Ellis and soul singer Joe Tex's appearance on The Tonight Show inspire heartfelt musings, and yet the 1963 assassination of John Kennedy prompts nary a word from the era's greatest protest singer.

For all the small revelations (it turns out he's been a big fan of Barry Goldwater, Mickey Rourke, and Ice-T), there are eye-opening disclosures, including his confession that a large portion of his recorded output was designed to alienate his audience and free him from the burden of being a "the voice of a generation."

Off the beaten path as it is, Chronicles is nevertheless an astonishing achievement. As revelatory in its own way as Blonde on Blonde or Highway 61 Revisited, it provides ephemeral insights into the mind one of the most significant artistic voices of the 20th century while creating a completely new set of mysteries. --Steven StolderBook Description

"I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But nowdestiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else."

So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Volume One, his remarkable book exploring critical junctures in his life and career. Through Dylan's eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan's New York is a magical city of possibilities -- smoky, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations arepunctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough. With the book's side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota and points west, Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.

By turns revealing, poetical, passionate and witty, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan's thoughts and influences. Dylan's voice is distinctively American: generous of spirit, engaged, fanciful and rhythmic. Utilizing his unparalleled gifts of storytelling and the exquisite expressiveness that are the hallmarks of his music, Bob Dylan turns Chronicles: Volume One into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.

Download Description" ""I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else."" So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Volume One, his remarkable book exploring critical junctures in his life and career. Through Dylan's eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan's New York is a magical city of possibilities -- smoky, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough. With the book's side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota and points west, Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate

Відколи пісня «Назавжди будь молодим» («Forever Young») уперше прозвучала 1974 року в альбомі «Планетарні хвилі» («Planet Waves»), вона стала однією з найулюбленіших з усього репертуару Боба Дилана. І ось тепер володар численних мистецьких нагород художник Пол Роджерс дарує нам нову інтерпретацію цього тексту.

Надихнувшись для своїх ілюстрацій уже класичними піснями Дилана та подіями із його життя, художник віддає несподівану і зворушливу данину цій пісні-гімнові, послання якої ніколи не зістаріється й залишиться назавжди молодим. «Назавжди будь молодим» обов’язково стане книгою усієї сім’ї. Для когось – через теплі спогади, пов’язані з піснями Боба Дилана, для когось – завдяки детальній мальовці, у якій можна загубитися, або ж просто через зворушливу історію про тісні сплетіння людських доль у любові до музики. Ця книжка не про Дилана, вона про музикантів як таких. Вона виконана «в дусі доби» і не має жодних вікових обмежень, як і сама музика. Подарована гітара, що стала другом, як мінімум, трьох музикантів, - та нитка, що єднає різні покоління. Це заклик до людинолюбства і небайдужості. Йдеться про те, як важливо поділитися найдорожчим, аби запалити творчістю маленьке серце. Твоя гітара може вивести когось на вулицю, аби співати чи навіть боротися за мир. «Назавжди будь молодим» - це крихітний світ взаєморозуміння та комфорту. А ще її краще одразу співати, аби створити відповідний настрій, що завжди заряджатиме позитивом усю Вашу сім’ю.

The celebrated first memoir from arguably the most influential singer-songwriter in the country, Bob Dylan.
'I'd come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.'
So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Volume One, his remarkable book exploring critical junctures in his life and career. Through Dylan’s eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan’s New York is a magical city of possibilities - smoky, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough. With the book’s side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota, and points west, Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.
By turns revealing, poetical, passionate, and witty, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan’s thoughts and influences. Dylan’s voice is distinctively American: generous of spirit, engaged, fanciful, and rhythmic. Utilizing his unparalleled gifts of storytelling and the exquisite expressiveness that are the hallmarks of his music, Bob Dylan turns Chronicles: Volume One into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.

The Philosophy of Modern Song is Bob Dylan’s first book of new writing since 2004’s Chronicles: Volume One — and since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2016.
Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over 60 essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyses what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work’s transcendence.
In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years and, like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.

Dylan, who began working on the book in 2010, offers his extraordinary insight into the nature of popular music. He writes over sixty essays focusing on songs by other artists, spanning from Stephen Foster to Elvis Costello, and in between ranging from Hank Williams to Nina Simone. He analyzes what he calls the trap of easy rhymes, breaks down how the addition of a single syllable can diminish a song, and even explains how bluegrass relates to heavy metal. These essays are written in Dylan’s unique prose. They are mysterious and mercurial, poignant and profound, and often laugh-out-loud funny. And while they are ostensibly about music, they are really meditations and reflections on the human condition. Running throughout the book are nearly 150 carefully curated photos as well as a series of dream-like riffs that, taken together, resemble an epic poem and add to the work’s transcendence.

In 2020, with the release of his outstanding album Rough and Rowdy Ways, Dylan became the first artist to have an album hit the Billboard Top 40 in each decade since the 1960s. The Philosophy of Modern Song contains much of what he has learned about his craft in all those years, and like everything that Dylan does, it is a momentous artistic achievement.

Written in 1966, ‘Tarantula’ is a collection of poems and prose that evokes the turbulence of the times in which it was written, and gives a unique insight into Dylan’s creative evolution.
‘The good samaritan coming in with the words “round & round we go” tattoed on his cheek / he tells the senator to stop insulting the lawyer.’
‘Tarantula’ captures Bob Dylan’s preoccupations at a crucial juncture in his artistic development, showcasing the antic imagination of a folk poet laureate who was able to combine the humanity and compassion of his country roots with the playful surrealism of modern art. Angry, funny and strange, the poems and prose in this collection reflect the concerns we find in Dylan’s most seminal music: a sense of protest, a verbal playfulness and spontaneity, and a belief in the artistic legitimacy of chronicling everyday life and eccentricity on the street.
‘Tarantula’ never made its publication date in Autumn 1966. To the delays added by Dylan’s constant revisions was added the greater complication of his motorcyle accident – which left him with still undisclosed injuries and kept the book from publication until 1971. In the interim, it became a cult phenomenon, with ‘bookleg’ editions photocopied from reviewer proofs circulating throughout the musical and literary demi-mondes. Reissued to coincide with the paperback release of ‘Chronicles Volume 1’, ‘Tarantula’ will finally find the wider audience it deserves.

Book DescriptionNineteen acoustic greats specially transcribed and arranged for guitar tablature and standard notation. Complete with lyrics.

“I’d come from a long ways off and had started a long ways down. But now destiny was about to manifest itself. I felt like it was looking right at me and nobody else.”

So writes Bob Dylan in Chronicles: Volume One, his remarkable book exploring critical junctures in his life and career. Through Dylan’s eyes and open mind, we see Greenwich Village, circa 1961, when he first arrives in Manhattan. Dylan’s New York is a magical city of possibilities—smoky, nightlong parties; literary awakenings; transient loves and unbreakable friendships. Elegiac observations are punctuated by jabs of memories, penetrating and tough. With the book’s side trips to New Orleans, Woodstock, Minnesota, and points west, Chronicles: Volume One is an intimate and intensely personal recollection of extraordinary times.

By turns revealing, poetical, passionate, and witty, Chronicles: Volume One is a mesmerizing window on Bob Dylan’s thoughts and influences. Dylan’s voice is distinctively American: generous of spirit, engaged, fanciful, and rhythmic. Utilizing his unparalleled gifts of storytelling and the exquisite expressiveness that are the hallmarks of his music, Bob Dylan turns Chronicles: Volume One into a poignant reflection on life, and the people and places that helped shape the man and the art.

Комплект из двух книг Боба Дилана: «Хроники» + «Тарантул»
Боб Дилан — самый неожиданный и яркий Нобелевский лауреат, любимец не одного поколения, талантливейший музыкант и поэт. Тонкость и поэтичность мысли отразилась и на прозаическом творчестве писателя.
В этом комплекте собраны два произведения: автобиографические «Хроники», в которых Дилан рассказывает историю своего становления и творческого пути, а также роман «Тарантул», такой же громкий и неоднозначный, как и сам автор.