Myke Tyson, Undisputed Truth: entre Tarentino et Tom Wolfe!

Beau dilemme... S'intéresser au récit de Mike Tyson racontant sa vie ou ignorer complètement les réflexions de celui dont les frasques sont peu glorieuses, autant sur le ring qu'à l'extérieur? Si son ascension et sa chute furent spectaculaires, Tyson profite maintenant d'un intérêt médiatique exceptionnel. Je vous laisse décider à ma place de l'attention à lui accorder! Comme ce carnet s'intéresse à l'actualité, je me contente de vous proposer cette critique du New York Times.

 Un premier extrait:

"Mr. Tyson’s new memoir, “Undisputed Truth,” written with Larry Sloman, is a splashy hodgepodge of a book, by turns exhausting and fascinating, self-pitying and candid. Parts of it read like a real-life Tarantino movie. Parts read like a Tom Wolfe-ian tour of wildly divergent worlds: from the slums of Brooklyn to the high life in Las Vegas to the isolation of prison. And parts read like transcripts from a marathon therapy session, in dire need of editing.

 The book shares the title of Mr. Tyson’s one-man stage show (HBO has been showing a filmed version), but in terms of raw emotion and psychological drama, the volume has more in common with James Toback’s powerful 2008 documentary “Tyson,” which was based on hours of taped interviews with its subject. Mr. Tyson’s idiosyncratic voice comes through clearly on the page here — not just his mix of profane street talk and 12-step recovery language, cinematic descriptions of individual fights and philosophical musings, but also his biting humor and fondness for literary and historical references that run the gamut from Alexandre Dumas to Tolstoy to Lenin to Tennessee Williams.

 Un deuxième extrait:
 "The book is peppered with boasts: “I was Clovis. I was Charlemagne. I was one mean son of a bitch”; “I was a titan, the reincarnation of Alexander the Great.” It’s also filled with lots of self-abasement: “I was a pig back then”; “I was just a sewage rat with delusions of grandeur.”"

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/11/19/books/mike-tysons-memoir-undisputed-truth.html?nl=todaysheadlines&emc=edit_th_20131119