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2006-02-14 01:37
From: melancolia
(Vienna, Manila)
a review of Tagebücher 1988 - 1994.
 
There comes a time a fan must recognise the limits.
When the "Journals" of Kurt Cobain came out in 2002, I told myself I didn't want to be the first one lining up to get it. Actually, I didn't want to read it. It is like a respect for dead people.
Reading it feels like voyeurism.
In the first place, he didn't make it public but his wife Courtney Love who did. That means he never intended the public to read his thoughts, though, there were some occasions, he toyed with the idea of other people figuring him out via his words and thoughts. It was probably one of those "what-ifs", you know like literary figures, whose diaries and journals were discovered posthumously. Surely, Kurt wanted to be immortal unconsciously.
The tortured artist???? Consider this one passage from his diary:
"I've been told that an artist is in need of constant tragedy to fully express their work, but I am not an artist and when I say I in a song, that doesn't necessarily mean that person is me and it doesn't mean im just a storyteller...Art is seriously being fucked with. Fuck, the word fuck has many connotations as does the word art..."
But this is Kurt Cobain and his thoughts, political, social or musical as it may be. Though the publication of his diaries and journals is somewhat an invasion of privacy. You are somehow lead to the tunnel of what we call the continuity, the aim to know more your idol, the icon that is Kurt Cobain.
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2006-11-20 10:28: JmeDoom
Nice review. It is tempting to want journals like this--just as it is to be rubberneckers at some gruesome crash on the side of the road. We like our geniuses tormented and conflicted. But aren't we all that way?
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By Kurt Cobain / Clara Drechsler / Harald Hellmann
Kiepenheuer & Witsch
ISBN: 3462031848
Release Date: 2002-11-01
Hardcover
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