THE ARTIST MUST GROW EVER MORE SELFISH — From the provocative pages of gay icon Ned Rorem's 1950’s Paris Diary ~ the dashing young composer’s self-portrait in words and music
THE ARTIST MUST GROW EVER MORE SELFISH ~ A tender portrait, narrated by Ned Rorem from his PARIS DIARY
“When The Paris Diary exploded on the scene in 1966 there had never been a book in English quite like it: Its intimate combination of personal, literary, and social insights was unprecedented. Pulitzer Prize Winning Composer Ned Rorem’s self-portrait of the artist as a young man, written between 1951 and 1955, was also a mirror of the times, depicting the now vanished milieu of Cocteau, Gide, Boulez, the Vicomtesse de Noailles, and others whose paths crossed with Rorem’s in such settings as Paris, Morocco, and Italy…
The diaries marked the beginnings of Gay Liberation, not because Rorem made a special issue of his sexuality, but because he did not; rather, he wrote of his affairs frankly and unashamedly. A casualness informs each sensual entry, and the overall tone is at once bratty and brilliant, insecure and vain, loving and cultured, but, above all, honest and entertaining.”
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