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Described by Barry Humphries as a 'cubist self-portrait', My Life as Merevisits his childhood, his adolescence, his complicated relationship with Australia, and his adventures of the heart and of the stage. In this heady memoir, his various distractions - painting, travel, collecting, marriage and divorce - are explored, if not explained.A master of comic writing, Barry tells us of his privileged youth in suburban Melbourne and, with a disarming candour that he already regrets, describes his hectic artistic and romantic career in Australia, England and America. There are also hilarious glimpses of his life as the creator of Sir Les Patterson, Sandy Stone, Dame Edna Everage - and himself.… (plus d'informations)
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I do not know whether to put in the things I do not remember as well as the things I do remember Gertrude Stein
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To Tessa and Emily, Oscar and Rupert In the hope That somewhere in these pages They might recognise their father
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PROLOGUE : Ten years ago, at a publisher's request, I wrote a brief account of my life. ... the publisher, he protested that it was too short ... In offering a second volume, I have thus decided to begin once more at the beginning and write a parallel memoir.
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(p58) I am often asked how I came upon the character of Dame Edna Everage. ... A terrible weariness descends on me at these moments and I sometimes wish I could just discreetly pass them a booklet or a video-cassette explaining it all. Instead I usually manage to tell Edna's story briefly, or at length, depending on the attractiveness of my interlocutor.
(p135) That phrase of my mother's, oft repeated, came back to me ... It's hard to believe, Barry, but you used to be such a nice boy.
(p186) When, on the thirty-first of December 1971, with the love and support of others, I finally discovered to my surprise that life was much more stimulating without stimulants, I was living in Delmont, a private nursing home in Warrigal Road in Melbourne. ... Slowly my emerging self ... began to look around ... I was starting life anew.
(p297) ... I was constantly angling myself at the table in order to get a better look at the tall, blonde diner across the restaurant. 'I know her,' Tristram announced. 'She's Lizzie Spender. I'll introduce you if you like.' It was perhaps a year before I saw my future wife once more, at a party at the Groucho Club, and almost as long again before I proposed that we meet for lunch. But we were ultimately married in Spoleto, that lovely hilltop town in Umbria. (note : not in book - Grouch Club was 1988, 'lunch meet' was when he was separated from his third wife, and he married Lizzie, his 4th wife, in 1990 and remained married, as he was 'much smarter now', until his death on 22 April 2023)
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And so I set these things down before the onset of the first of a thousand small physical degradations as, in a still-distant suburb, Death strides whistling towards me.
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Described by Barry Humphries as a 'cubist self-portrait', My Life as Merevisits his childhood, his adolescence, his complicated relationship with Australia, and his adventures of the heart and of the stage. In this heady memoir, his various distractions - painting, travel, collecting, marriage and divorce - are explored, if not explained.A master of comic writing, Barry tells us of his privileged youth in suburban Melbourne and, with a disarming candour that he already regrets, describes his hectic artistic and romantic career in Australia, England and America. There are also hilarious glimpses of his life as the creator of Sir Les Patterson, Sandy Stone, Dame Edna Everage - and himself.
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