Rolling Obituary Thread: 2019

not my cuppa but wouldnt want anything taken away from him, was installed at rte along with the cabling and floors

rip

longtime ECM engineer jan erik kongshaug

https://www.dagsavisen.no/kultur/musikk/jan-erik-kongshaug-er-dod-1.1613025

White Ring’s Kendra Malia Dead at 37.

https://pitchfork.com/news/white-rings-kendra-malia-dead-at-37/

Rest In Peace Christopher Dennis. Hollywood Superman. pic.twitter.com/u3ClbLBVsV

— Shadi Petosky (@shadipetosky) November 7, 2019

Robert Freeman, photographer who shot five of The Beatles' album covers

Bob Norris, the original "Marlboro Man" from cigarette ads, at 90. Was not a smoker.

*one of the original Marlboro Men, evidently

Sad news for Twin Cities punk rock aficionados, Terry Katzman has left us.

devastating. Terry was the best.

Jackie Moore, soul singer.

aww no! this tune is classic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L7wgSguvOcE

"Precious Precious" is one of my alltime favorite songs.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sIgNpiFcPpM

I played "Both Ends Against The Middle" out a couple of months ago:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TK8KyAmEtr4

Frank Dobson, former Labour MP for Holborn and St Pancras, Health Secretary and London Mayoral candidate, 79. Lived just around the corner from me, as it happens.

RIP Frank, never cared for you as Uncle Albert in "Only Fools and Horses" though.

Low on the beeb - an ignominious death.

He can have a chat with Uncle Albert in heaven about how PFI's reinvigorated the NHS and how little anybody cares about the deaths of plodding professional pols.

Ted Cullinan, architect, 88.

If you were a fan of the Too Pure label, his son Tom was in Th’ Faith Healers.

Comics journalist Tom Spurgeon

Terry O'Neill

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2019/nov/17/photographer-of-swinging-60s-terry-oneill-dies-aged-81

... married to Faye Dunaway at one point, that I didn't know.

That’s when I first heard of him!

Tom Lyle, comic artist. Judging by the reaction on Twitter, he seems to be best remembered as a Spider-Man artist, though I knew him from the early Tim Drake Robin stories. RIP.

Michael J. Pollard

https://bloody-disgusting.com/news/3595146/r-p-house-1000-corpses-actor-michael-j-pollard-passed-away/

Gahan Wilson

RIP CW

lol horror guys xp

damn, i met Wilson at a college publication event when i was in school. worthy of Charles Addams' company.

this was a couple of weeks back but: https://www.courthousenews.com/widow-of-french-novelist-celine-dies-aged-107/

cool that the article has a file photo of him but not the person who died, or even her name in the first graf

But his reputation was sullied by his collaboration with the Nazis during the occupation of France in World War II, during which he wrote virulently anti-Semitic pamphlets.

oh worm?

French publisher Gallimard sparked controversy last year by announcing plans to reissue a collection of the violently anti-Semitic pamphlets but then shelved the idea in the face of public outrage.

oh okay

if you GIS Lucette Destouches almost all of the pictures have her and/or ol' louis posing with an animal, usually a cat

well at least that's relatable

Wow @ Celine's wife (!) I started reading Journey to the End of the Night a couple weeks ago

he died when i was one year old and i am very old!

(the only celine i've ever read was some extracts in kristeva's book on abjection, trotsky liked his writing but not his politics, he was a popular and diligent doctor in a poor district apparently -- except also a nazi)

I gave money to the fundraiser for Gahan Wilson's assisted living this spring; hope he had a comfortable end.

Journey to the End of the Night is an inarguable classic. So much of its language is hyperbolically oral, like, so overwhelmingly reliant on slang that it could only have been written and composed. I can't imagine what it sounds like in translation.

Nor is it overtly problematic™ like his subsequent writings.

(Beckett loved it, of course.)

I mean surely literal anti-semitic propaganda isn't "problematic" in scare quotes it's, y'know, a scourge

I wasn't just thinking about the pamphlets but fair point nonetheless.

i liked journey to the end of the night but it was definitely a book that i knew would've been a thousand times better in the original (an example that i've read bilingually would be vargas llosa's la ciudad y los perros, which loses of the slangy, demotic spanish in translation, hell even the translated title "the time of the hero" loses something)

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2018/jan/05/fierce-row-over-plans-to-publish-antisemitic-texts-by-french-writer-louis-ferdinand-celine

It seems like most of the controversy wasn’t so much about whether the pamphlets should be published, it was about Gallimard’s imprimatur being associated with the writings. Like this would mean giving the pamphlets some kind of prestige as canonical literature.

I'd say that as historical documents, they should be available in some form or another.

It seems like most of the controversy wasn’t so much about whether the pamphlets should be published

Nah, that was definitely the crux of it.

I'd say that as historical documents, they should be available in some form or another.

― jmm, Friday, November 22, 2019 12:05 PM (fifteen minutes ago) bookmarkflaglink

yeah, in an archive and scanned, not released for people to spend money on for the enrichment of a publisher and an estate

Tbf it was meant to be a critical edition. The pamphlets themselves are readily available online with no historical framing whatsoever.

Maybe proceeds should go to a de-radicalization organization?

As far as I know, that possibility was never alluded to by the publisher. Which is indeed quite telling.

Is that a thing lots of publishers have done?

Not to my knowledge, but Gallimard could certainly afford it.

I have no way of knowing but JTTEOTN positively sings in translation, it seems more alive than Dostoevsky for example. different language but every translation I've read of Dostoevsky (exactly 2) were stiff as a board. and I know they're very different writers.