art, family, courage and Haiti’s bloody history becomes the show’s throughline. A moving tribute and a work of astute criticism, The Art of Death is a book that will profoundly alter all who encounter it. In Create Dangerously, a new play based on the work of Haitian-American writer Edwidge Danticat. The narrative, which continually circles the many incarnations of death from individual to large-scale catastrophes, culminates in a beautiful, heartrending prayer in the voice of Danticat's mother. "e I have been writing about death for as long as I have been writing."e The book moves outward from the shock of her mother's diagnosis and sifts through Danticat's writing life and personal history, all the while shifting fluidly from examples that range from Gabriel Garcia Marquez's One Hundred Years of Solitude to Toni Morrison's Sula. Only in this case, the craft is living and the technical. "e Writing has been the primary way I have tried to make sense of my losses,"e Danticat notes in her introduction. In her latest book, The Art of Death, Danticat writes about her mother’s death from cancer a few years ago, and the last months she spent by her mother’s bedside remembering the stories. Edwidge Danticat's 'The Art of Death' can be read as the book version of a craft talk an artist might give to less-experienced colleagues. A moving reflection on a subject that touches us all, by the bestselling author of Claire of the Sea LightEdwidge Danticat's The Art of Death: Writing the Final Story is at once a personal account of her mother dying from cancer and a deeply considered reckoning with the ways that other writers have approached death in their own work.
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |