“I… (try) to be (as) simple or direct as I please; this is often taken as pure stupidity, but since our world is insincere, it is probably stupid to be sincere. “Why am I doomed to this torture?.. I always felt like I was an inferior being, why… am I the worst, why?” These are notes from the notebook of 29-year-old Norma Jean, by that time the legendary Marilyn Monroe, America’s most popular actress.
“I… (try) to be (as) simple or direct as I please; this is often taken as pure stupidity, but since our world is insincere, it is probably stupid to be sincere. “Why am I doomed to this torture?.. I always felt like I was an inferior being, why… am I the worst, why?” These are notes from the notebook of 29-year-old Norma Jean, by that time the legendary Marilyn Monroe, America’s most popular actress. Behind the image of a dazzling blonde was a woman who was extremely anxious, confused, vulnerable and very demanding of herself. “In order to survive, she had to become more cynical,” her husband, playwright Arthur Miller, once remarked. “Instead, she was a street poet and tried to bring her poetry to the ears of a wild crowd that tore her clothes.” The book, based on the recently found archive of Monroe, published for the first time her letters and personal diaries, poignant lines of poetry and rare photographs. The Hollywood star appears here in an unexpected perspective. Such as the director, close friend and teacher of actress Lee Strasberg described her: “Marilyn radiated a light — a whole spectrum of loss, resistance and longing — which captivated everyone, because everyone wanted to be involved in this childish, shy and at the same time cheerful immediacy.
WORD, 272 p.