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The iconic French singer comes to life in this enthralling, definitive biography, which captures Edith Piaf’s immense charisma along with the time and place that gave rise to her unprecedented international career.
Raised by turns in a brothel, a circus caravan, and a working-class Paris neighborhood, Piaf began singing on the city’s streets, where she was discovered by a Champs-Elyses cabaret owner. She became a star almost overnight, seducing Paris’s elite and the people of its slums in equal measure with her powerful, passionate voice. No Regrets explores her rise to fame and notoriety, her tumultuous love affairs, and her struggles with drugs, alcohol, and illness, while also drawing on new sources to enhance our knowledge of little-known aspects of her life. Piaf was an unlikely student of poetry and philosophy, who aided Resistance efforts in World War II, wrote the lyrics for nearly one hundred songs (including “La Vie en rose”) and was a crucial mentor to younger singers (including Yves Montand and Charles Aznavour) who absorbed her love of chanson and her exacting approach to their mtier.
Here is Piaf in her own worldParis in the first half of the twentieth centuryand in ours. Burke demonstrates how, with her courage, her incomparable art, and her universal appeal, “the little sparrow” endures as a symbol of France and a source of inspiration to entertainers worldwide.
Raised by turns in a brothel, a circus caravan, and a working-class Paris neighborhood, Piaf began singing on the city’s streets, where she was discovered by a Champs-Elyses cabaret owner. She became a star almost overnight, seducing Paris’s elite and the people of its slums in equal measure with her powerful, passionate voice. No Regrets explores her rise to fame and notoriety, her tumultuous love affairs, and her struggles with drugs, alcohol, and illness, while also drawing on new sources to enhance our knowledge of little-known aspects of her life. Piaf was an unlikely student of poetry and philosophy, who aided Resistance efforts in World War II, wrote the lyrics for nearly one hundred songs (including “La Vie en rose”) and was a crucial mentor to younger singers (including Yves Montand and Charles Aznavour) who absorbed her love of chanson and her exacting approach to their mtier.
Here is Piaf in her own worldParis in the first half of the twentieth centuryand in ours. Burke demonstrates how, with her courage, her incomparable art, and her universal appeal, “the little sparrow” endures as a symbol of France and a source of inspiration to entertainers worldwide.
著者について
Carolyn Burke is the author of Lee Miller: A Life and Becoming Modern: The Life of Mina Loy. She has taught at the University of California at Santa Cruz and Davis and at universities in France and in Australia, where she was born. She now lives in California and writes full-time.
www.carolynburke.com
www.carolynburke.com
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Singing for her life
2011/6/20
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I grew up listening to and admiring French pop music, always trying to sing along with the proper words, hoping to become immersed in the French language while studying it in high school. The songs of Edith Piaf were tops, oh so French, iconic. Her life as a free, though tormented, spirit, haunted me in the bohemian 1950s, and although I knew almost nothing of her real life, intimations of her living a louche and druggy existence abided and acquired a patina that seemed to be a widely held notion.
Carolyn Burke's biography of Piaf rubbed away decades of this fuzzy thinking. Reading it was like watching a burst of magnificent fireworks rear up into the night sky and release streamers of words and music that mesmerize. Burke's book gives us easy access to the world of this great talent with new depth and heart. She details the real events of the Little Sparrow's life, dispelling myths, focusing on Piaf's gifts of talent, generosity of spirit, enormous energy for love, life and expression with specific references to the words of her songs and their origins.
Here is Piaf's life drawn without sensational headlines--how she functioned as a force of nature, a sensual woman who was a tireless lover of men, a woman who pushed herself constantly to the edge of her energy store, a woman whose consequent ill-health caused her to make bad choices and become addicted to various medications. Burke's book delves into the complexity of Piaf's relationships with family, friends, songwriters, and lovers. The result is wholly memorable--a serious, yet entertaining and inviting book--the tiny woman behind the voice and songs still touching our hearts.
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Carolyn Burke's biography of Piaf rubbed away decades of this fuzzy thinking. Reading it was like watching a burst of magnificent fireworks rear up into the night sky and release streamers of words and music that mesmerize. Burke's book gives us easy access to the world of this great talent with new depth and heart. She details the real events of the Little Sparrow's life, dispelling myths, focusing on Piaf's gifts of talent, generosity of spirit, enormous energy for love, life and expression with specific references to the words of her songs and their origins.
Here is Piaf's life drawn without sensational headlines--how she functioned as a force of nature, a sensual woman who was a tireless lover of men, a woman who pushed herself constantly to the edge of her energy store, a woman whose consequent ill-health caused her to make bad choices and become addicted to various medications. Burke's book delves into the complexity of Piaf's relationships with family, friends, songwriters, and lovers. The result is wholly memorable--a serious, yet entertaining and inviting book--the tiny woman behind the voice and songs still touching our hearts.
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1 人中、1人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
Edith says, merci bien, Ms. Burke
2012/3/7
形式:Kindle版|Amazonが確認した購入
This is the best biography of Edith Piaf that I have ever read, excepting, of course those written by Piaf herself. Even those books did not tell the entire truth of her life, she had to use a modicum of decorum for her own sake, that of her "publique"'s. Ms. Burke's relating of her tale really puts you in Piaf's place in a whirlpool of activity and change in France that she helped guide with her song.
She was known as "La Voix de Paris" and Ms. Burke helps show you the forks in the road that lead her to become the most celebrated female singer in France. She shares Edith's dark times, too, but in a very respectful way and cautions the reader to not think that was all there was to this incredible woman. In all things Edith sought love that one magical le grand amour above all things. When she found and lost it in Marcel Cerdan, she just kept on seeking it in other men, but never was hopeful that she would find it again. Her life was led just like her sad, tragic heroines of her songs, seeking love and finding death, or sadness. There has never been anyone like her and will never be anyone like her again.
My only wish is that the French singer, Jill Aigrot will give up her lame attempt to emulate Edith Piaf, which is impossible, she doesn't have the voice, the fire, nor the spirit.
Thank you again for your delightful book, Ms. Burke.
She was known as "La Voix de Paris" and Ms. Burke helps show you the forks in the road that lead her to become the most celebrated female singer in France. She shares Edith's dark times, too, but in a very respectful way and cautions the reader to not think that was all there was to this incredible woman. In all things Edith sought love that one magical le grand amour above all things. When she found and lost it in Marcel Cerdan, she just kept on seeking it in other men, but never was hopeful that she would find it again. Her life was led just like her sad, tragic heroines of her songs, seeking love and finding death, or sadness. There has never been anyone like her and will never be anyone like her again.
My only wish is that the French singer, Jill Aigrot will give up her lame attempt to emulate Edith Piaf, which is impossible, she doesn't have the voice, the fire, nor the spirit.
Thank you again for your delightful book, Ms. Burke.
1 人中、1人の方が、｢このレビューが参考になった｣と投票しています。
The best Piaf biography that I have read
2012/1/5
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I have read several biographies (and the 2 authobiographies). This is both the most enjoyable and in my opinion the best. The author delivers Piaf the person with more insight than the others. I first read the book from my local library and then bought a copy. I found the writing to be exceptional and only deepened my appreciation and respect for this exceptional artist and person.
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