James Brown trug Lockenwickler

Rotenturmstrasse 20

1010 Wien

 

If you want to sing, then sing! But why do you have to be someone else?

"In one chapter [of my novel] Happy the Happy, Pascaline Hutner tells how she and her husband Lionel had to watch their son Jacob gradually transform into Céline Dion. This was one story among others in the book, that of a child who is no longer recognisable, one story among others that, unlike the others, remains unresolved. I knew that one day I would meet these people again. In James Brown Wore Curlers, Jacob finds himself in a care facility. In a facility, you don't know where, in a park in the middle of an orderly and peaceful nature. There he has found a friend, Philippe, a patient like him. Just as Jacob sees himself as Céline, or wants to be a singer, Philippe is a white man who thinks he is black, or wants to be black. The degree of their irrationality is not known. It is said that no human being is formed without an example and a model. The psychiatrist to whom the unfortunate Hutners entrusted their child does not try to return the patients to their original destiny. She endeavours to bring them into harmony with themselves, to enable them to accept their emancipation. Modern harmony. A mixture of generosity and confusion. It's musical. It's funny. And also sad."
Yasmina Reza