CLASSIFICATION
Swallow ID:
8336
Partner Institution:
University of Calgary
Source Collection Title:
Robert Kroetsch fonds
Source Collection ID:
Source Collection Contributing Unit:
University of Calgary, Archives and Special Collections
Source Collection URI:
Source Collection Image URL:
ITEM DESCRIPTION
Title:
1+2 - Author, author
Title Source:
Transcribed from the artifact
Language:
English
Production Context:
Broadcast
Identifiers:
[29.3]
Rights
Rights:
In Copyright (InC)
Notes:
Enters Public Domain at the end of 2058
CREATORS
Name:
Kroetsch, Robert
Dates:
1927-2011
CONTRIBUTORS
Name:
Hawkes, John
MATERIAL DESCRIPTION
Recording Type:
Analogue
AV Type:
Audio
Material Designation:
Cassette
Physical Composition:
Magnetic Tape
Extent:
1/8 inch
Side:
A
Tape Brand:
Scotch
Sound Quality:
Good
Physical Condition:
Good
Other Physical Description:
Includes music and sound effects.
DIGITAL FILE DESCRIPTION
Duration:
T00:23:30
Size:
387.26 MB
Dates
Date:
1988
Type:
Performance Date
Notes:
Dates supplied through research for copyright.
LOCATION
Address:
Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada
Venue:
CBC Radio
CONTENT
Contents:
Robert Kroetsch
[00:00:05]
Introduces the novels of John Hawkes, The Lime Twig (1961); The Blood Oranges (1971); Death, Sleep & the Traveler (1974).
Unknown
[00:01:57]
Reads from The Lime Twig.
Robert Kroetsch
[00:05:34]
Discusses The Lime Twig.
Unknown
[00:06:40]
Reads from The Lime Twig.
Robert Kroetsch
[00:08:45]
Discusses The Lime Twig.
Unknown
[00:09:26]
Reads from The Lime Twig.
Robert Kroetsch
[00:11:06]
Discusses The Lime Twig.
Unknown
[00:11:54]
Reads from The Blood Oranges.
Robert Kroetsch
[00:13:58]
Discusses The Blood Oranges.
Unknown
[00:14:18]
Reads from The Blood Oranges.
Robert Kroetsch
[00:16:24]
Discusses The Blood Oranges.
Unknown
[00:17:21]
Reads from Death, Sleep and the Traveler.
Robert Kroetsch
[00:19:51]
Discusses Death, Sleep and the Traveler.
Unknown
[00:20:28]
Reads from Death, Sleep and the Traveler.
Robert Kroetsch
[00:21:54]
Discusses Death, Sleep and the Traveler.
Notes:
Readings are excerpts of Hawkes' novels with and introductions/interpretations by Robert Kroetsch.
- Opens with introduction by Robert Kroetsch. Musical accompaniment through recording.
- “I have a suspicion that we are all the novelists of our own lives”
- The reader of Hawkes’ work is not Robert Kroetsch.
- Robert Kroetsch discusses John Hawkes. The Lime Twig was set in Britain, Hawkes is rumoured never to have visited. It is a balance between control and loss of control, daydream, reverie, and fantasy. Erotic forces and language of erotics. The landscape and violence that intrudes upon it.
- [00:08:45] Robert Kroetsch trying to wrestle with Canadian humour and the terrifying, and how those two can exist within each other. Innocence comes through loss. Comedy and terror flow together.
- [00:16:24] Robert Kroetsch: blood and oranges both speak to fertility rites. Daydreaming of creating new self. In Hawkes the idea of self is replaced by idea of role – “we are each a bundle of contending and related roles”
- [00:19:51] Robert Kroetsch: writers work to surprise. The translation of pure desire into complexity of love. The question of “who is safe?”
- [00:21:54] Robert Kroetsch: We are obsessively in our own minds inventing the who/where of our lives. Hawkes as gothic writer: innocence, desire, self-deception, courage. “We make up the stories of our lives and then, in fear and laughter, act them out.”
- Recording directed to the attention of Geraldine Sherman, State of the Arts.
NOTES
RELATED WORKS
Citation:
John Hawkes, The Lime Twig (1961); The Blood Oranges (1971); Death, Sleep & the Traveler (1974)