{"id":95756,"date":"2016-03-21T08:58:02","date_gmt":"2016-03-21T12:58:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/?p=95756"},"modified":"2016-03-21T10:33:18","modified_gmt":"2016-03-21T14:33:18","slug":"beware-the-mean-beach-attendant-and-other-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/2016\/03\/21\/beware-the-mean-beach-attendant-and-other-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Beware the Mean Beach Attendant, and Other News"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_95758\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/the-beach-at-night.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-95758\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-95758\" class=\"wp-image-95758\" src=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/the-beach-at-night.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"515\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/the-beach-at-night.jpg 622w, https:\/\/www.theparisreview.org\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/the-beach-at-night-300x258.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (min-width: 62.5em) 67vw, 100vw\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-95758\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">From the cover of Ferrante\u2019s <i>The Beach at Night<\/i>.<\/p><\/div>\n<ul>\n<li>Our basketball columnist, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, has stepped over to <em>The New Yorker<\/em> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.newyorker.com\/news\/sporting-scene\/an-awkward-farewell-to-kobe-bryant\" target=\"_blank\">to bid farewell to Kobe Bryant<\/a>. And he\u2019s a defender of Bryant\u2019s poem-cum-retirement-announcement: \u201c \u2018<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theplayerstribune.com\/dear-basketball\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dear Basketball<\/a>\u2019 was mocked by some, but it has more going on in it, from a literary perspective, than may be immediately clear. Not only is the narrative circular, with a changed perspective at the end, it\u2019s also both an epistle and an apostrophe\u2014a form of rhetoric in which the speaker addresses an inanimate object as though it\u2019s a living thing. As both a basketball player and a personality, Bryant has always put extraordinary emphasis on the importance of craft. He has also always owed a debt to Michael Jordan, and this was the case here as well: Jordan, too, published\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.sbnation.com\/nba\/2015\/11\/29\/9816288\/kobe-bryant-retirement-open-letter-to-basketball-michael-jordan\" target=\"_blank\">an open letter to basketball<\/a>\u00a0in order to say goodbye to the game. But his was in prose.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Today in parenting, Ferrante style: next year you can lull your sons and daughters to sleep with <em>The Beach at Night<\/em>, Ferrante\u2019s new book, aimed at readers six to ten. It\u2019s a sunny, feel-good story, suffused with light and hope: \u201c<em>The Beach at Night<\/em> is a spinoff of <em>The Lost Daughter<\/em>, one of the author\u2019s lesser-known early novels, in which a teacher goes on vacation in a coastal town and steals a doll from a child. In <em>The Beach at Night<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.wsj.com\/speakeasy\/2016\/03\/17\/elena-ferrantes-frightening-childrens-book-coming-to-the-u-s\/\" target=\"_blank\">the doll isn\u2019t stolen. Instead, she is abandoned by her young owner to face nighttime terrors such as the Mean Beach Attendant of Sunset and his friend, the Big Rake<\/a> \u2026 \u2018A Beach Attendant arrives, I don\u2019t like his eyes,\u2019 the doll says, according to a sample translation \u2026 \u2018He folds up the big beach umbrellas, the chaises. I see the hairs of his mustache moving over his lips like lizards\u2019 tails.\u2019 \u201d<\/li>\n<li>Geoffrey H. Hartman, whose <em>Criticism in the Wilderness<\/em> took criticism perhaps farther afield than anything before it, has died at eighty-six. \u201cIn <em>Criticism in the Wilderness<\/em>, he argued that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2016\/03\/19\/books\/geoffrey-h-hartman-literary-critic-dies-at-86.html\" target=\"_blank\">criticism should not only stand on an equal footing with literature but also\u00a0<em>be\u00a0<\/em>literature<\/a> \u2026 In elevating criticism to the status of literature, Professor Hartman did not mean merely that it should be well written. What he also meant was that criticism should function for criticism\u2019s sake alone. \u2018The spectacle of the critic\u2019s mind disoriented, bewildered, caught in some \u2018wild surmise\u2019 about the text and struggling to adjust\u2014is not that one of the interests critical writing has for us?\u2019\u201d<\/li>\n<li>Reminder: art and commerce don\u2019t really \u201cintersect\u201d anymore. They\u2019re running parallel toward the horizon, forever. Want to go the other way? You can\u2019t. Just ask young artists: \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/artanddesign\/2016\/mar\/16\/generation-y-young-british-artists-punk?CMP=twt_gu\" target=\"_blank\">A few years ago \u2026 if you were a creatively minded person, you might have become a sculptor or a painter. Now you are equally likely to become the founder of a tech startup, channeling your creative ideas and risk into what is, ultimately, a business<\/a> \u2026 A lot of young startup people are viewing their companies as an artwork \u2026 I think the creativity involved in painting, say, and that of tech are getting closer. The incredible risk\u2014with vision and values\u2014that artists once represented is now embodied in these tech companies. That has a real resonance for me. People can make a beautiful business or a beautiful venture.\u201d<\/li>\n<li>What compels a writer to abandon one language for another? Beckett, Conrad, and Nabokov all traded one tongue for another: \u201cSome do it because they are intoxicated by the possibilities offered in a new language\u2014the words and turns of phrase for which their own language doesn\u2019t have any equivalents, the strange new rhythms and patterns of sound \u2026 Yet <a href=\"http:\/\/www.economist.com\/blogs\/prospero\/2016\/03\/speaking-tongues\" target=\"_blank\">the adoption of a foreign language isn\u2019t just about looking for a fresh perspective. It can signal a vexed relationship with the original language<\/a>; the psychological burdens of a writer\u2019s previous texts, his literary reputation in that language, the entire tradition in which he is working \u2026 Writers rejuvenate themselves by fleeing to foreign tongues. They escape all the psychic associations that gather around a language and a literary tradition. In a sense, it\u2019s an extreme cure for writer\u2019s block.\u201d<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our basketball columnist, Rowan Ricardo Phillips, has stepped over to The New Yorker to bid farewell to Kobe Bryant. And he\u2019s a defender of Bryant\u2019s poem-cum-retirement-announcement: \u201c \u2018Dear Basketball\u2019 was mocked by some, but it has more going on in it, from a literary perspective, than may be immediately clear. 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