In her Author's Note, Joyce Carol Oates explains that Blonde is "a radically distilled 'life' in the form of fiction," not a biography of Norma Jean Baker, a.k.a. Marilyn Monroe. In fact, Blonde is perhaps Joyce Carol Oates' most ambitious novel. Still, when the reader is confronted with a massive copy of Blonde, Joyce Carol Oates's fictional retelling of Marilyn Monroe's life, a question does come to mind: What could Oates possibly have written about Monroe's brief life and career that could fill more than pages? The answer? Sex. Blonde is one long, racy read. Oates recounts every telling event in the life of Norma Jeane Baker, from her early . · Joyce Carol Oates, author of the Marilyn Monroe novel "Blonde," took to Twitter to praise the film and Ana de Armas.
This article focuses on Joyce Carol Oates novel Blonde () which disrupts the traditional form of the biography by using the technique of the "posthumous point of view," not only of the actress, but even of a collective unspecified "we." With elements of the memoir, the historical novel, and even the fairytale, the novel achieves the author's primary aim which is both to give a. Joyce Carol Oates takes the boldest path to comprehending ''the riddle, the curse of Monroe'' by proceeding directly and frankly to fiction. Her novel ''Blonde'' is fat, messy and fierce. It's part Gothic, part kaleidoscopic novel of ideas, part lurid celebrity potboiler, and it is seldom less than engrossing. Cologne-Brookes, Gavin. Dark Eyes on America: The Novels of Joyce Carol bltadwin.ru Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, Presents analysis of selected significant works by Oates, with a.
Blonde is a bestselling historical novel by Joyce Carol Oates that chronicles the inner life of Marilyn Monroe. Oates insists that the novel is a work of fiction that should not be regarded as a biography. It was a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize () and the National Book Award (). by Joyce Carol Oates ‧ RELEASE DATE: April 1, In the perverse manner all too typical of her singular career, Oates follows up one of her best novels'last year’s plaintive Broke Heart Blues'with one of the worst she (or any other contemporary “serious” author, for that matter) has ever committed to paper. Joyce Carol Oates, author of the Marilyn Monroe novel "Blonde," took to Twitter to praise the film and Ana de Armas.
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