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Playing the inside out, David Adams Richards

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Playing the inside out

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David Adams Richards

The Antonine Maillet-Northrop Frye lecture

Playing the Inside Out is David Adams Richard's distilled insight on the artist's struggle for full access to artistic integrity by remaining an outsider to convention. Richards conjures forth his vision of eternal truths commonly held by all mankind, a Miramichi cosmic consciousness that he has been working at all his life. In an entertaining, remonstrating, and ultimately uplifting essay he identifies how conformity and laziness poison artists, and the great pressures that exist for writers to "join the herd." No one can possibly read this essay and not find comments or conclusions that directly relate to them. The writer's challenge to find and protect one's inner honesty is deeply familiar to anyone seeking to be faithful to the true sense of "I" that dominates motivation and judgement. So personal are the truths that Richards lays out, that an inmate, politician, nurse, teenager, farmer, teacher - anyone who reads - all will feel Richards' passion and find value in his practical wisdom and encouragement. Playing the Inside Out is shrewd analysis; a personal advisory directed at artists and writers in particular. But Richards' topic and manner of address are egalitarian. He is telling us to be who we are - honestly, consistently, and with heart. Depuis plus de trente ans, l'črivain David Adams Richards puise dans l'expřience de la marginalit ďe la Miramichi pour approfondir l'intřieur de l'tr̊e humain, l ỏ d̮e loge le vrai. Dans cet essai, Richards dpěint le rapport de ršistance crǎtive qu'il entretient avec l'altřit štigmatisant qui menace l'authenticit ět exprime son appťence d'aller au-del d̉es apparences. L'approche sociale et existentielle qu'il adopte dans son parcours littřaire et personnel privilǧie la rvľ̌ation d'un vrai possible, qu'il incarne assurměnt lui-mme̊ en tant qu'črivain.Tel qu'il le fait dans son essai et l̉'instar de ses romans, David Adams Richards contredit, dpľace et transforme le discours hǧmǒnique pour privilǧier le vrai. L'črivain nous raconte des histoires qui se dřoulent dans un endroit qui devient seul lieu et tout lieu. L'esthťique du rčit assume l'authenticit q̌ue possdë une valeur d'expansion permettant d'accďer d̉es lois plus puissantes. La dmǎrche de Richards s'inscrit humblement dans une tentative de sonder une rǎlit p̌lus proche de l'tr̊e fondamental, voire universelle, au-del d̉es apparences

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