Do You Believe?
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Reflecting a broad array of religious perspectives, a thought-provoking series of candid discussions on God, religion, and faith examines the role of religion in the modern world, in an anthology featuring the thoughts of Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie,...
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Reflecting a broad array of religious perspectives, a thought-provoking series of candid discussions on God, religion, and faith examines the role of religion in the modern world, in an anthology featuring the thoughts of Toni Morrison, Salman Rushdie, Spike Lee, Martin Scorsese, Derek Walcott, Jonathan Franzen, Grace Paley, and Elie Wiesel.
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Informal, revealing, unexpected, this book is a captivating and thought-provoking meditation how faith, in all its facets, remains profoundly relevant for and in our culture.When the Italian writer Antonio Monda sat down to talk religion with American cultural leaders... he went straight for the big questions. O, The Oprah Magazine
Some of the most well-known and well-respected cultural figures of our time enter into intimate and illuminating conversation about their personal beliefs, about belief itself, about religion, and about God.
Antonio Monda is a disarming, rigorous interviewer, asking the most difficult questions (he often begins an interview point blank: Do you believe in God? ) that lead to the most wide-ranging conversations. An ardent believer himself, Monda talks both with atheists (asked what she feels when she meets a believer, Grace Paley replies: I respect his thinking and his beliefs, but at the same time I think he s deluded ) and other believers, their discussion ranging from personal images of God (Michael Cunningham sees God as a black woman, Derek Walcott as a wise old white man with a beard) to religion s place in American culture, from the afterlife to the concepts of good and evil, from fundamentalism to the Bible. And almost without fail, the conversations turn to questions of art and literature. Toni Morrison discusses Virginia Woolf and William Faulkner, Richard Ford invokes Wallace Stevens, and David Lynch draws attention to the religious aspects of Bu uel, Fellini...and Harold Ramis's Groundhog Day.
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PAUL AUSTERA Mocking and Unfathomable Mystery
I've known Paul Auster for many years, and I have to admit that for a long time I was sorry that he was so unwilling to talk about his personal relationship with religion. I realize that it's a delicate subject, and that each sensibility experiences it in a different way, and yet I somehow felt that he owed me that sort of confidence. Obviously, I was wrong, but then, especially after September 11, 2001, our relationship gained a certain intimacy, nourished by long conversations about politics (his positions are definitely more radical than mine), about cinema (I admire the humility he has demonstrated as a writer learning about film), and about Brooklyn, where he lives, and which in his latest novel he calls "the ancient kingdom."
Paul is a great storyteller, and his inability to contain his laughter when he is telling a funny story is irresistible. Some of his favorite stories are about Billy Wilder, a director we both love, and among the many anecdotes he has recounted, my favorite is one that I think explains his conception of life. Wilder, on the occasion of his ninetieth birthday, was to receive an important prize intended as a tribute to his entire career. All Hollywood had gathered to honor him, and at least three generations of producers, directors, actors, and other film people gave the master a standing ovation as soon as he appeared in the theater. Wilder made his way to the stage with some difficulty, accepted the award, and then headed toward the microphone that had been set up for his thank-you speech. This rhetorical moment has enormous importance in Hollywood, and the excitement in the theater was palpable. Finally reaching the microphone, Wilder began to speak, in his unmistakable Austrian accent: "A man goes to the doctor and says anxiously, 'Doctor, I can't pee anymore!' The doctor, perplexed, looks at the man and asks him, 'How old are you?' And the man says, 'Ninety.' 'Well,' the doctor
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replies, 'you've peed enough.'" Without another word Wilder put the microphone back in its place and leftthe stage, leaving the audience in a state of mingled dismay and amusement. A few burst into applause, but the director had already reached the limousine that was to take him home.
Every time he tells this story, Auster laughs heartily, and it has never been entirely clear to me whether he is primarily amused or moved. "I don't know myself," he tells me, in his handsome brownstone near Prospect Park, in Brooklyn, "but I know that that's the only way Wilder could have ended his career."
You don't think it reveals a cynical attitude?
Perhaps. But I admire people who are able to make fun of themselves. Only a confident person is capable of doing that. And Wilder was certainly confident.
I wanted to mention the Wilder story in order to talk about religion.
Why do you keep wanting to talk about that?
Because it's the most important subject there is. If there is a God, how does he speak to us? And how do we speak to him?
I understand, but I'm sure that you can talk about God and religion even if you're not talking about them directly.
I'm sure of that, too, provided it's not a way of avoiding the problem or of making oneself a god in one's own image and likeness. So let me start our conversation by referring to what you've created in your books and films. Don't tell me there is no spiritual yearning in Smoke.
I would speak of a possibility of redemption, but not necessarily of religion.
I was very struck also by the elegiac tone of your most recent book, The Brooklyn Follies, a novel in which there is a lot of suffering, and yet what prevails is a humanity marked equally by grace and by piety. The protagonist, the sixty-year-old Nathan Glass, decides to return to the neighborhood of his childhood with the intention of "finding a quiet place to di
Every time he tells this story, Auster laughs heartily, and it has never been entirely clear to me whether he is primarily amused or moved. "I don't know myself," he tells me, in his handsome brownstone near Prospect Park, in Brooklyn, "but I know that that's the only way Wilder could have ended his career."
You don't think it reveals a cynical attitude?
Perhaps. But I admire people who are able to make fun of themselves. Only a confident person is capable of doing that. And Wilder was certainly confident.
I wanted to mention the Wilder story in order to talk about religion.
Why do you keep wanting to talk about that?
Because it's the most important subject there is. If there is a God, how does he speak to us? And how do we speak to him?
I understand, but I'm sure that you can talk about God and religion even if you're not talking about them directly.
I'm sure of that, too, provided it's not a way of avoiding the problem or of making oneself a god in one's own image and likeness. So let me start our conversation by referring to what you've created in your books and films. Don't tell me there is no spiritual yearning in Smoke.
I would speak of a possibility of redemption, but not necessarily of religion.
I was very struck also by the elegiac tone of your most recent book, The Brooklyn Follies, a novel in which there is a lot of suffering, and yet what prevails is a humanity marked equally by grace and by piety. The protagonist, the sixty-year-old Nathan Glass, decides to return to the neighborhood of his childhood with the intention of "finding a quiet place to di
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Inhaltsverzeichnis zu „Do You Believe? “
Introduction: The Evidence of Things UnseenPaul Auster : A Mocking and Unfathomable Mystery
Saul Bellow : I Believe in God but I Don't Bug Him
Michael Cunningham : We Are All God's Children
Nathan Englander : Whoever Wrote the Bible Is God
Jane Fonda : Christ Was the First Feminist
Richard Ford : I Believe in the Redemptiveness of Art
Paula Fox : God Is the Name of Something I Don't Understand
Johnathan Frazen : Reality Is an Illusion
Spike Lee : I No Longer Felt Anything in Church
Daniel Libeskind : We Believe the Moment We See
David Lynch : Good and Evil Are Within Us
Toni Morrison : The Search is More Important Than the Conclusion
Grace Paley : Death Is the End of Everything
Salman Rushdie : I Believe in a Mortal Soul
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr .: I Am an Agnostic
Martin Scorsese : God Is Not a Torturer
Derek Walcott : I Believe That I Believe
Elie Wiesel : I Have a Wounded Faith
Acknowledgments
Autoren-Porträt von Antonio Monda
ANTONIO MONDA teaches in the Film and Television Department of New York University. An award winning filmmaker, he is author of A Journey into American Cinema, and editor/author of The Hidden God.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Antonio Monda
- 2007, 192 Seiten, Maße: 14,4 x 20,1 cm, Kartoniert (TB), Englisch
- Herausgegeben: Antonio Monda
- Übersetzer: Ann Goldstein
- Verlag: Random House UK
- ISBN-10: 0307280586
- ISBN-13: 9780307280589
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Englisch
Pressezitat
When the Italian writer Antonio Monda sat down to talk religion with American cultural leaders... he went straight for the big questions. O, The Oprah MagazineDeeply moving, Do You Believe? is a truly compelling book, bound to become a classic. Commonweal
As an interviewer, Monda has a light touch and a penchant for asking direct existential questions in the European manner: Do you think images are replacing the written word? Are you a pessimist or an optimist? Comment on Dostoyevsky s assertion that If God doesn t exist, everything is permitted. He s a vivid exemplar of Italy s baroque rhetorical culture, in which playfully meandering discussion is often prized over conclusions. The New York Times Book Review
In a series of short, informal conversations, NYU film professor Monda cuts to the heart of a question that not only provides the title for the book, but that he believes provides the key to existence.... The book should prove revelatory to believers and atheists alike, and to anyone interested in the ways in which spirituality informs art and culture. Kirkus Reviews
This is a thoughtful, provocative and concise volume. Publishers Weekly
The premise here is simple and straightforward. Cultural critic Monda asked some of the big names in popular culture variations on two basic questions: Do you think God exists? and How has your answer affected your life choices? The responses are often surprising, even quite startling.... Provocative and entertaining. Booklist
Entrancing from page one.... Each interview provides a wonderful insight into ideas that are widespread throughout the country.... This short collection is easy-to-read yet full of intellectual dialogue that will cause you to think if nothing else. I haven t been so intrigued by a book since college, and intend to buy a copy of Do You Believe? for many of my friends and relatives for Christmas. BookLoons.com
Monda ... proves
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himself an adventurous and risk-taking dialog partner.... The discussion sends an empowering message to those raising preliminary questions about faith and is a touchstone for well-traveled souls. Monda s humble voice and his ability to engage interviewees in a dialog that is both insightful and sincere make this book especially accessible. He offers readers the beauty, excitement, and perplexity of the journey, giving them hope to work out their answers. Library Journal (starred review)
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