Why did the brothels of Paris have a day off on the day of Hugo's death, or the vices and passions of great creators

2024 Author: Richard Flannagan | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-15 23:55

Often, many artists, writers and actors, in order to attract attention to themselves, went to cunning tricks that were not always approved by others. But, unfortunately, like everyone else, they are also people with their own advantages and disadvantages. Sometimes these shortcomings are unforgivable or even contradict the very morality that their works preach. Take, for example, Lovecraft, Caravaggio or Victor Hugo - they all led far from ideal lives and stood out among most creative people for their eccentric addictions and actions that cause bewilderment from the public.

1. George Orwell turned in his friends to the secret service

The man who became famous all over the world thanks to the dystopia "1984" and the story "Animal Farm", beyond the book pages, was on the side of Big Brother, rather than against him. Orwell kept secret the names of those people he believed were secret supporters of the Communists. Anyone he met and who seemed too supportive of the idea of social security, he put on his blacklist. And when he had enough names, he sent a note to the British Secret Service, which said: "You shouldn't trust these people." Dozens of famous names, including the name of Charlie Chaplin and Katharine Hepburn, "flaunted" on the list of George, eager to practice his own guesses. He handed over not only strangers, but also his own friends, getting indescribable pleasure from this.

2. William Golding confessed to raping a 14-year-old girl

No wonder the author of Lord of the Flies was familiar with the darkness in the hearts of little boys. After all, his own heart was no less dark than that of his characters. Shortly before his death, William Golding wrote a series of very frank memoirs that make the public think about many things. Firstly, he not only confessed to the rape, but also wrote about it in detail. At that time he was eighteen years old, and the future writer was obsessed with the fourteen-year-old girl Dora. He was so strongly attracted to her that he lured her into the field and tried to take her by force. Young Dora resisted desperately. She beat him with her fists, and as soon as the young man loosened his grip, the girl rushed to run, saving her life, and Goldin chased her with a cry:. He did not at all regret what he had done. Even as an old man writing his memoirs, Golding casually mentioned what happened, diluting the narrative with explanations designed to justify what he did., - he admitted, -. Such a frankly ridiculous statement shocked most people, causing a lot of controversy on this topic.

3. David Foster Wallace was a violent stalker

The author of Endless Joke was not the nicest boyfriend in the world. He may have written one of the best novels, but his behavior outside the pages of the book did not fit into any framework and norms of decency. The worst was Mary Carr. David was literally obsessed with her throughout the 90s. She was the very woman he fell in love with from the first moment they met. But when such attachment goes beyond all boundaries, it is at least disgusting. Their acquaintance happened when Mary was married and had children. But David was courting her in every possible way, trying to drag her into bed. Having received a refusal, he immediately went crazy. At first, he walked around and told people that she was his girlfriend and they were dating, but in reality it was not so. And a little later, he did show her husband a recently made tattoo with the name Mary on his own chest in the heart area. But that didn't work either. Then Foster just shouted obscenities at her, hitting his fist on the glass of her car. He repeatedly tried to hire a killer in order to get rid of the faithful of his beloved, but every time something went wrong and the plan simply failed. Apparently, Carr also had some kind of mental problems. Instead of going to law enforcement, she started an affair with a crazy guy who was stalking her. But it didn't get any better. Despite the fact that they were together, David was distinguished by his cruelty. He not only shouted at her on a constant basis, but also threw whatever came to hand at her. But she still stayed with him. Until one day it got to the point that he almost killed her with a coffee table, trying to shoot it in her head. After that, the girl finally came to her senses and left him.

4. Mary Shelley had a lot of weird addictions

Mary Shelley's life story is a much more macabre story than Frankenstein. It's not something that people often talk about, but Shelley was quite a strange person. And by this weirdness is meant the heart of her late husband, which she kept in a glass jar for thirty years. But her oddities did not end there. It seemed even stranger what she did with her husband while he was alive. Their relationship with Percy began when young people, finding themselves in a cemetery, decided to make love at her mother's grave. Apparently, young Mary could not find a more suitable place to part with her virginity.

5. Victor Hugo was fond of girls of easy virtue

The word "sex" hardly comes to mind when it comes to the author of Les Miserables and The Hunchback of Notre Dame. However, people who knew Hugo personally all as one repeated that sex was a priority for him, and that his insatiable sexual appetite was legendary. Rumor has it that on the day after his own wedding on the marriage bed, he was given carnal pleasures about ten times a night. Having learned pleasure and said goodbye to virginity, he literally went off the rails, going crazy on sexual grounds. Soon he already had affairs with every woman who dreamed of getting him into her own networks. He preferred married women, and also did not disdain to spend time with night butterflies, surrendering to the power of skillful hands. If you believe the words of one of his adored mistresses, then in two years he managed to drag about two hundred women into his bed. And even when he was eighty-three years old, he continued to have fun with young girls. In his diaries, Victor skillfully poured out his soul, describing in detail his love affairs. He was a frequent visitor to brothels and it is not at all surprising that on the day of Hugo's death, all the confused Parisians grieved for him, having arranged for themselves an official day off.

6. Allen Ginsberg was a member of the NAMBLA

Allen Ginsberg already has a place in history. His poem Howl (Howl) challenged the very definition of literature, and his place among the beat poets captured the imaginations of generations of thinkers. But as they say, every person, despite his talents, had and still has his own skeletons in the closet. He was an honorary member of the North American Boylovers Association (NAMBLA) and insisted that the world and humanity in general needed a new reform. Allen wanted to legalize child pornography, as well as same-sex relationships, citing the fact that modern people should be more like ancient Greeks: "Intergenerational relationships are a kind of social practice that philosophers praised." But even this was not enough for him. Ginsberg tried his best to convince people that there is no general consensus about consent, and that any "NO" can easily mean "YES", including in the case of children.

7. Ezra Pound was a fascist

It is no exaggeration to call Ezra Pound a fascist. This man was an inveterate fanatic of The Axis Alliance and admired their ideas in every possible way, for which, in fact, he was thrown into prison as a traitor and traitor to the Motherland. His idol was Mussolini, and he was looking for a meeting with him in every possible way. And when the Italian dictator agreed to the meeting, Ezra showered him with thanks and compliments, expressing his delight. During World War II, Pound made a radio speech about the need for the American people to stay away from the Nazis. He showed his dissatisfaction with America as best he could, which took the side of the Third Reich, and then went into long rants, claiming that the Jews are responsible for all the wars on earth. His "Italian Songs" are laudatory odes about how strong the spirit of the fascists is, while his "Pisa Songs" is the exact opposite. He wrote this book while sitting behind bars, at that time Italian fascism had already fallen.

8. Flannery O'Connor was racist

Flannery O'Connor is arguably one of the most controversial figures in the literary world. This woman became famous for her stories with the loud name "Everything that rises must converge", which touched upon very important topics related to the civil rights movement. But in fact, she openly hated blacks and people in general. Therefore, she often gave out caustic and caustic jokes against them, hiding behind the fact that any protest, rally or movement is a waste of time and sheer absurdity.

9. JD Salinger was obsessed with teenage girls

JD Salinger was crazy about girls who had not reached the age of majority. At least that's what one of his girlfriends, Joyce Maynard, said about him. According to her, when they started dating, she was barely eighteen, and at that time he was already fifty-three. But, unfortunately, she was not his only young mistress. Jean Miller also revealed that she was in a relationship with J. D. But, unlike Joyce, she was only fourteen when they began to live with the writer together. Their romantic relationship lasted for about five years, and all this time Dee stoically waited for the pretty girl to come of age in order to be in the same bed with her legally. And as soon as the man got what he wanted, he immediately left, forever deleting it from his life.

10. Norman Mailer stabbed his wife with a penknife

In the early 60s, Norman Mailer was aiming for the post of mayor of New York and he had every chance of getting this place. But the hot-tempered nature and reckless act that happened at the charity evening put an end to his election campaign. Norman threw a party in support of his candidacy, but did not get the turnout he hoped for. In frustrated feelings, having gone too far with alcohol, he began to provoke the guests into a fight, and even grappled with his fellow writer, pretty fraying on everyone's nerves. Angered by this behavior of her husband, Norris began to insult him in every possible way, humiliating him in front of the astonished audience. In response, Norman simply grabbed a penknife and stabbed it in his wife's chest, nearly hurting his heart. Some of the guests tried to help the victim. But Norman was adamant, he shouted to be left for dead. Embittered, he ran away from the party and only after some time, when his common sense finally declared himself, the man came back to help his wife. She was taken to the hospital, where, after an operation, they saved her life. But the deed could no longer be changed. After the incident, Norman often made fun of the fact that people began to treat him not as warmly as before.

11. Caravaggio killed a man because of his love for a prostitute

Caravaggio was one of the greatest and most influential Italian Renaissance painters of the 17th century, known for his masterpieces such as Bacchus and The Calling of Saint Matthew. He pioneered a technique called chiaroscuro, which is the artful interplay of light and shadow in art, imitated by future artists, including filmmakers. A celebrity in the art world, the artist also became famous in amorous affairs, tarnishing his reputation with murder. In 1606, Caravaggio defended his honor by killing Ranuccio Tomassoni, pimp Phyllide Melandroni, a girl of easy virtue with whom Michelangelo was in love.

12. Michelangelo considered himself better than others and persecuted unwanted

If Leonardo da Vinci created a model of the ideal person of the Renaissance, then Michelangelo brought it to perfection. Throughout his life, the artist has made innumerable contributions to almost all forms of visual arts such as painting, sculpture and architecture. But what's even stranger about him is that his most famous work, the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, was painted in an environment he hated: painting. Michelangelo preferred to sculpt much more, considering all other directions and manifestations of art to be inferior and devoid of depth and vitality. His complacency was not limited only to art, but also bleed in his personal life. Described as “stingy and devoid of friends,” he had a high opinion of himself and was also intensely jealous, which manifested itself in a long-term feud with fellow artist Leonardo da Vinci. In the 1560s, both artists, Michelangelo and da Vinci, were commissioned to repaint the destroyed Council Room of the Palazzo Vecchio. The problem was that they were both assigned to paint on the same wall. According to the documents, Michelangelo persecuted da Vinci so badly that in the end the artist was exiled back to France without completing the painting in question.

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