robinson in space ( ‘an attentive listener and scrupulous recorder during our many long conversations’)

and another childhood classic - a french tv production of robinson crusoe, sold in germany and italy also, with new music (by songwriter, music publisher and lyricist Robert Mellin and P. Reverberi) and dubbed into english it was sold for exhibition in the uk market. the adaptation was made by a 'jean paul carriere' (who turns out to be jean-claude carriere) and pierre reynal.

last night (after much christmas ghost story watching - whistle and I’ll come to you, lost hearts and shalken the painter). horsemouth went to bed and read the first few pages of my last breath (not another ghost story) but an autobiography of surrealist film-maker luis bunuel. he thinks it is brinley’s old copy.

of course, on any of the previous occasions when he’d read it, if horsemouth had read the dedications with attention, he would have realised that it is ghost-written by jean-claude carriere,

 ‘an attentive listener and scrupulous recorder during our many long conversations’ 

it begins with a disquisition on memory (think the dr.who christmas special, the modern remake of whistle and I’ll come to you). and even false memories, bunuel has a very clear memory of attending paul nizan’s wedding in a church with jean-paul sartre as best man, the only problem is it can’t be true.

‘in my own village of calanda, where I was born on the twenty-second of february 1900, the middle ages lasted until world war 1.’

there are photos too - of dali on the set of l’age d’or with what appears to be a mohican haircut, of lorca and bunuel photographed in a model aircraft at carnival. carriere (the writer on many of bunuel’s later films as well as of horsemouth’s childhood favourite the adventures of robinson crusoe) is unobtrusive - it reads well, just like a rambling, suggestive set of recollections should.