Perché lui legge

Mark Stewart del Times ascolta il disco dei Babyshambles e ne scrive una buona recensione.
Ma il motivo per cui ve la segnalo è contenuto nel paragrafo iniziale, semplicemente meraviglioso.

«There's a song on the new Babyshambles album, Down in Albion, called A Rebours. It is named after the 1884 novel by Joris-Karl Huysmans (translated as Against the Grain, or Against Nature). This tells us several things about Pete Doherty. First, it reminds us that, as well as the drug-addled ne'er-do-well who inhabits the tabloids, Doherty is a clever, widely read young man who immerses himself in aspects of culture that most rock'n'rollers never encounter.
Then, should you read the novel, you will encounter a chilling analogy for Doherty's own life. Huysmans tells the tale of a man so appalled by contemporary life that he retreats to an isolated house where he sees nobody and fashions an elaborate alternative world, because "he believed that the imagination could provide a more-than-adequate substitute for the vulgar reality of actual experience"».

(Si ringrazia La Laura per la segnalazione)