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Chronicles: Volume One [Deckle Edge] [Hardcover]

Bob Dylan (Author)
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Starred Review. After a career of principled coyness, Dylan takes pains to outline the growth of his artistic conscience in this superb memoir. Writing in a language of cosmic hokum and street-smart phrasing, he lingers not on moments of success and celebrity, but on the crises of his intellectual development. He reconstructs, for example, an early moment in New York when he realized "that I would have to start believing in possibilities that I wouldn’t have allowed before, that I had been closing my creativity down to a very narrow, controllable scale...that things had become too familiar and I might have to disorient myself." And he recounts how, in that search for larger reach, he actually went to the public library’s microfilm archives to learn the rhetoric of Civil War newspapers. Skipping the years of his greatest records, or perhaps saving those years for the second volume of his chronicle, Dylan recalls the times when he was sick of his public persona and made more lackluster albums like "Self-Portrait" and "New Morning." He then skips again to his comeback work with producer Daniel Lanois in the late 1980s. Dylan emphasizes that he was "indifferent to wealth and love," and readers looking for private revelations will be disappointed. But others will prize the display of musical integrity and seriousness that is evident in his minutia-filled accounts of his influences in folk and blues. Ultimately, this book will stand as a record of a young man’s self-education, as contagious in its frank excitement as the letters of John Keats and as sincere in its ramble as Jack Kerouac’s On the Road, to which Dylan frequently refers. A person of Dylan’s stature could have gotten away with far less; that he has been so thoughtful in the creation of this book is a measure of his talents, and a gift to his fans.
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There's no word yet on how far this first volume goes, but we'll bet that Dylan doesn't leave any answers blowin' in the wind. Look for the complete Lyrics (ISBN 0-7432-2627-8. $45), pubbing simultaneously.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Bob Dylan: a journey through Middle America, May 26 2012
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Robert Smith "Island Cowboy" (Ontario Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chronicles: Volume One (Paperback)
Growing up (teenager) in the sixties, Bob provides an inside-out document of the world we were influenced by. His style is what I would call neo-modern. Love his insights, his expression of his feelings and emotions. It is a wealth of inspiration.
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5.0 out of 5 stars The poet at last, Jan 5 2005
This review is from: Chronicles: Volume One (Hardcover)
The writing style is a bit tough at first, but as the book proceeds it grows easier to read. It starts with his arrival in Greenwich Village as a young folksinger and is filled with great character sketches and descriptions of places that no longer exist. With language that can be as sparse and yet pregnant with meaning as those of his best lyrics Dylan combines the real experiences with his impressions in a way that puts the reader right there. Other books I recently enjoyed were Haddon's "The Curious Incident'" and Jackson McCrae's "The Children's Corner." The latter is a great collection of stories dealing with just about every human emotion known to man. Highly recommended.
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5.0 out of 5 stars By no means a legend..., Jan 4 2005
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Brent Wittmeier "bwittmeier" (Alberta, Canada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Chronicles: Volume One (Hardcover)
Say what you will about Dylan. He is prolific, evocative, unpolished, even wildly inconsistent.

One thing that Dylan himself won't abide, however, is being deemed a legend. It's a dismissal more than it is praise. No accident that Dylan's recent touring schedule has consisted of University arenas. He refuses to pass into the oblivion of retrospective adulation. He is no panderer to the sentimental. He is a pilgrim, always in search of a new audience for his craft, a shaping and reshaping of American folk music (in all of its variegated splendour).

Dylan's memoir, Chronicles (part 1) is a welcome addition for any fan of his craft. It is by no means an end of life look in the mirror, with all the self-congratulation such a project entails. Like Dylan's songs (built by the lexicon of Highway 61), Chronicles is in many ways an homage to Woody Guthrie, Robert Johnson, and Johnny Cash.

Most of the book shows Dylan as a young man driven to succeed, honing his knowledge of songwriting and words, lenses through which he began to view the world. While focusing on his days of anonymity, Dylan intersplices memories of what success actually brought him (late 60s-early 70s), and his reawakening to his artistry (in the late 80s). It is a chronicle, but by no means chronological.

This book is well worth its price. It is imagistic but unpretentious, introspective but not egocentric, well-written but not polished.

Can't wait for the next chronicle.

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