Fülszöveg
"This is a big, superbly detailed and important
biography of the man who was one of the most
powerful seminal influences on the turbulent
1960s - a brilliantly gifted Minnesota kid who
came forth with a secret bag of torments to
write and sing those songs whose sounds and
ideas are today's household words: 'Blowin* in
the Wind' and 'The Times They are A*
Changin* V'
What makes Scaduto's study exceptional -
and undoubtedly controversial - is the unre-
touched portrait of Dylan that emerges: a tor-
mented man who in the author's view may be
"clinically insane", a disastrously unhappy figure
who denied his Jewishness and, deliberately cul-
tivating a ruthless mythomania, advanced his
career by "building a character that would sell".
Once he achieved celebrity, Dylan ne Zimmer-
man lashed out in every direction, Scaduto
scarcely disguises an ostensible affair with gentle
Joan Baez and makes no bones about Dylan's
encounters with drugs. The vertiginous changes
in...
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Fülszöveg
"This is a big, superbly detailed and important
biography of the man who was one of the most
powerful seminal influences on the turbulent
1960s - a brilliantly gifted Minnesota kid who
came forth with a secret bag of torments to
write and sing those songs whose sounds and
ideas are today's household words: 'Blowin* in
the Wind' and 'The Times They are A*
Changin* V'
What makes Scaduto's study exceptional -
and undoubtedly controversial - is the unre-
touched portrait of Dylan that emerges: a tor-
mented man who in the author's view may be
"clinically insane", a disastrously unhappy figure
who denied his Jewishness and, deliberately cul-
tivating a ruthless mythomania, advanced his
career by "building a character that would sell".
Once he achieved celebrity, Dylan ne Zimmer-
man lashed out in every direction, Scaduto
scarcely disguises an ostensible affair with gentle
Joan Baez and makes no bones about Dylan's
encounters with drugs. The vertiginous changes
in Dylan's personality - especially since the 1966
motorcycle accident which merely enhanced his
legend - clearly have roots somewhere in the
schizoid search-for-identity which Scaduto de-
picts in unflinching terms throughout".
Publishers Weekly.
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