Joe Brainard: I Remember

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come aver scoperto l’acqua calda: si scrivono frasi di lunghezza diversa, ma generalmente concise (anche una dozzina in una sola di queste paginette), che comincino tutte con ‘Mi ricordo’, e si fanno seguire ricordi a ricordi, a volte scegliendo un argomento (il natale, le vacanze estive, la scoperta del sesso, il cibo…) e lasciando che i ‘Mi ricordo’ si concentrino su questo argomento - altre volte, invece, procedendo a salti, a briglia sciolta, in libertà, senza ordine, avanti e indietro nel tempo, per associazione o contrasto.

Stagioni, bambini, giocattoli, adulti, scuola, adolescenza, parenti e sconosciuti, gioie, paure, figure indefinite e colori nitidissimi: ecco i ricordi di vita di Joe Brainard – frammentati, raccattati, riportati alla rinfusa.Brainard followed I Remember with I Remember More (1972) and More I Remember More (1973), both published by Angel Hair.

I remember daydreams of living in the past and having the advantage (and sometimes the disadvantage) of knowing what was going to happen before it happened. De behandelde herinneringen zijn herkenbaar, dikwijls ook als ze heel erg intiem zijn en het boek is volkomen pretentieloos.Me parece que todos compartimos muchas más experiencias íntimas de las que nos imaginamos, algo que queda demostrado con la cantidad de pequeños detalles que una persona como Brainard, tan alejada de mí en muchos sentidos, me ha devuelto de mi pasado. In a book which uniquely captures 1950's America, Brainard constructs the story of his life through a series of brief entries, each beginning with the words "I remember", and continues with observations about family, film stars, lust, and the astonishing New York culture into which he moved to from Tulsa at the age of 18.

Simplemente una sucesión de “Me acuerdo de… “, completado con unas pocas líneas en las que se alude a hechos, sensaciones, pensamientos, deseos, fetiches o personas -amigos, familiares, simples conocidos o personajes famosos-, conformando un collage sin guion ni secuencia temporal alguna pero que acaban por dibujar la figura del artista y del mundo de aquellos años, aunque sea de forma tangencial, y siempre de forma amena y sin grandes estridencias. recommended Taylor Swift’s “All Too Well (10 Minute Version) (Taylor’s Version)” as an exercise soundtrack; soon, I was clocking my runs by it. The doxological ramifications of a church banging bells all night, while freight train horns echo throughout this town. that I know that the scarf Swift leaves at “your sister’s house” is the navy-and-maroon-striped Gucci scarf she was photographed wearing during her 2010 relationship with Gyllenhaal.Joe Brainard puts together a wide compilation of personal, social, cultural, and economic memories across the span of over 100 pages.

De eerste verzamelde uitgave dateert van 1975 een laatste herpublicatie in het Engels volgde in 2012.I Remember has inspired many homages, none more notable than OuLiPian Georges Perec's Je me souviens which was dedicated to Brainard. As Janet Burroway notes in Writing Fiction, “the effect of the present tense, somewhat self-consciously, is to reduce distance and increase immediacy: we are there.