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Almost forty years after moving to Manhattan, author Richard Morris has achieved if not stratospheric renown then at least the accomplished career and caliber of fame that he envisioned for himself as a younger man. Now financially comfortable and artistically embittered, Richard is at his home upstate recuperating from heart surgery and nursing resentment toward his publisher and his reading public who have found new, more exciting writers and left his star to wane.
In his attic, Richard comes across a stack of notebooks, the journals he began keeping when he arrived in New York in the late '70s. He is alternately fascinated and repelled by the young man he meets in these pages: hilariously naïve and egotistically misguided, the younger Richard compulsively absorbs everything around him from art and creativity to sex and drugs. As he reads more about himself, written by himself, Richard discovers that the pivotal moments of self-invention -- and self-realization -- occur far outside the conventional chronology of a lifetime.
Perforated Heart explores two wholly different characters -- a young, ambitious artist and his older self, jaded by both success and failure -- and creates an unforgettable portrait of the two men who inhabit the one individual. By turns meditative, deftly observant, and scathingly analytical, Eric Bogosian re-creates the landscape and atmosphere of 1970s New York City with fresh, vivid imagery and reveals a powerful commentary on the dynamic between creativity and commerce in the artistic world. Perforated Heart is his most rewarding and penetrating novel yet, with prose that reflects an equally astonishing range of experience and emotion.
- Sales Rank: #2780598 in Books
- Published on: 2009-05-05
- Released on: 2009-05-05
- Format: Deckle Edge
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.25" h x 1.10" w x 6.25" l, 1.06 pounds
- Binding: Hardcover
- 288 pages
From Publishers Weekly
Playwright and actor Bogosian presents in his Rothian third novel the diaries of a once-prominent author embittered by his declining fame. The diary of Richard Morris begins with the writer losing a major award to a lesser talent, his latest book a failure and his agent busying himself with more marketable clients. Death and the prospect of being forgotten hound him, and heart surgery leaves him with a metaphorically convenient scar. Housebound while recovering from the operation and hiding from the affections of his young girlfriend, Richard becomes engrossed in his diaries of 30 years earlier, when he was new to New York City. While these notebooks reveal what a total idiot the young writer was, the elder Richard fails to notice how very little has changed. Richard remains a man who mistakes self-destruction for authenticity and is utterly incapable of seeing himself as others see him—which is aggravated when his literary fortunes take a welcome, belated turn and faces from his past show up in the present. Richard is a grade-A bastard, and his rise and fall and rise again exemplifies the often arbitrary and opportunistic machinery of the literary world and operators within it. (May)
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Review
"Perforated Heart is the grown-up version of Next Stop Greenwich Village. It is, in alternating sections, the story of a young literary lion's fierce ambition and of the same lion in late middle-age, still dangerous, still jealous of rivals, but startling himself with the long look back and the not-so-long look ahead. In this novel Bogosian says things about ambition and energy that very few dare to -- or are in a position to. It is completely engrossing. On fire from beginning to end." -- John Casey, author of National Book Award winner Spartina
"Perforated Heart is overflowing with insight and pain and it cuts with thrilling truth. Eric Bogosian was the first and remains the best at digging deep and fearlessly into the American male's heart of darkness." -- Neil LaBute
"Eric Bogosian has an ear for the way Americans talk. He also has an entertaining knack for exposing the appalling yet hilarious way American men think." -- Sarah Vowell, author of The Wordy Shipmates and Assassination Vacation
"[Bogosian's character] summons up memories of his potent, everything-possible youth. The narrative switches back and forth from the present day to the seventies, years that Morris filled with every imaginable excess of sex and drugs. Bogosian handles this rapid backward-and-forward deftly, his prose flowing smoothly and vividly, and his characters lively." -- Booklist
About the Author
Eric Bogosian is the author of Mall, the plays Talk Radio, subUrbia and Griller, and the Obie Award-winning solo performances Drinking in America, Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead and Sex, Drugs, Rock & Roll. He is the recipient of the Berlin Film Festival Silver Bear Award, a Drama Desk Award, and two NEA fellowships. An actor who has appeared in more than a dozen feature films and television shows, Bogosian lives in New York City.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful.
Young Artists, Beware
By Kevin D
In his latest novel, Eric Bogosian offers a cautionary tale about life, death, love, and art (though not in that order). Perforated Heart is the story of two Richard Morrises: one, a successful fiction writer in 2006 who, after heart surgery, goes to recuperate at his country home in Connecticut, where he rediscovers his journals from 30 years earlier; and the second is the young Richard, circa 1976, just beginning as a writer and resident of New York City.
Bogosian is back in his element with this first person narrative (his last two novels were in the third person) which is more the style of his monologues. Structured as a journal (like his Notes from Underground), Perforated Heart lets the character tell the story, and Bogosian succeeds at creating two distinct voices for young Richard and old Richard. Young Richard is brash but passionate; old Richard is refined but cynical. Old Richard bears a striking resemblance to David Blau, from Bogosian's Red Angel, while young Richard is more reminiscent of Barry Champlain from Talk Radio.
The elder Richard is a bit of a recluse, but in his earlier life he was surrounded by a colorful cast of characters. The apartment he shared with a man named Haim and a woman named Dagmara could have come from the pages of Sartre's No Exit: Haim loves Dagmara, Dagmara is in love with Richard, and Richard is in love with himself. Richard's acquaintances are rendered somewhat 2-dimensionally in his journals, serving mainly as his companions on a series of crazy party and nightlife adventures. The most memorable of these characters is Big John, the mysterious, stuttering, little-known-history spouting drug dealer (I kept waiting for John to say, "And these are my dogs, Harley and Davidson.")
Richard seeks out new experiences and altered states of consciousness, seemingly as field research for his writing. What is he researching? Life--human existence. His transition from wild child to successful writer provides the main crux of the story (although I imagine the path to sobriety is more difficult than Richard, or Bogosian, lets on).
But is all of his sexual and chemically induced "experience" supposed to convince us that Richard is a great writer? Here Bogosian stumbles somewhat with the story-within-the-story trap. There is occasional talk of Richard's new novel, "A Gentle Death," but we're just supposed to take it on faith that the book is really good. While it was easy for me to buy the fact that Reba in Wasted Beauty was model gorgeous after Bogosian described her appearance, I didn't like simply being told that Richard's book is good. Don't tell me his book is good; show me, and I'll be the judge. Granted, Richard's journals are coherent, which would suggest that he's a competent writer, but with respect to "A Gentle Death"--there's no "there" there.
Despite his achievements and professional success, Richard's personal life is a disaster, but he has only himself to blame. He revisits some of his old friends and discovers a 3rd dimension to them, but it only seems to stoke the fires of his self-loathing (or his loathing of his younger self, anyway). The climax is somewhat anticlimactic, but perhaps that's the point? That in our youth obsessed culture we tend to shoot our proverbial wad earlier than we'd like.
The Fan, a character from Bogosian's Pounding Nails in the Floor with My Forehead, shows up toward the end of the book, which gives old Richard a chance to say what he might have said to his younger self. Tragically, however, Richard always wants what he can't have and rejects those who love (or might love) him.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.
Obsession works
By mark jabbour
PERFORATED HEART (2009) by Eric Bogosian is a fascinating study in obsession for pussy, money, and fame. In this instance that obsession revolves around the life of a middle-aged, successful, American Jew writer in New York who reflects back on his path via his journal from the mid 70's, as he struggles in the present (2006-7) to reclaim his place atop the literary field. This is an intensely honest story and I could identify with it completely. I agree with most all of the positions the main character, Richard Morris, takes on the human condition and what it takes to succeed. I can relate to his methodology, and the relationship problems that ensue from it. He is single-minded, selfish, and driven completely by his obsessions. He attempts to defend them as unchangeable facets of his genetic make-up, or "fate," as he calls it. He posits that he is an artist and must be faithful only to his craft/art - a seeker, recorder, actor, and teller of truth -- and damn the consequences. Is his self-image accurate? Others disagree--friends and lovers. (eg. pgs. 204-212. Was it consensual sex or rape?) There is scene after scene that Bogosian writes about that I found myself saying, "damn - perfect! I've been there." Be those scenes back in the 70's or present day. "Big John?" I know him, and in fact just tried to find him. "Zim?" Know him, too, and in fact had just that same confrontation (pg. 214-217) last month. "Elizabeth?" Yep. And so on through all the characters and their interactions. Eerie. Probably, that's because (apparently) the author and I are the same age. But, we are not the same person. We have our different "fates,' locales, and traits; i.e. personalities and interactions. The character, Richard Morris, has a fixation on beauty, female beauty; and was born on March 6, 1950, "The Day Of The Beauty Lovers" (according to "The Secret language of Birthdays.") Eerie. I am going to purchase this book for my library, and maybe a few more for some "friends." Is this book autobiographical? I don't know, don't know the author. But, I know it's good, very good, and honest and true. I can't, however, give it five stars because of the ending. Endings in novels are so hard ...
1 of 2 people found the following review helpful.
Richard Morris Ain't No Rilke
By Stephen W. Montagne
In his latest novel, "Perforated Heart", Eric Bogosian rumbles, tumbles and thrashes his way through a topic he knows all too well: the male psyche and the male psyche on art (this is your male brain, this is your male ego, this is your male brain/ego attempting to become famous as a literary artist... be afraid, be very, very afraid).
If a gentle reader picks up "Perforated Heart" having no prior knowledge of Eric Bogosian's work as an actor and writer for stage, screen and television, nor having read his previous two excellently rendered offerings "Mall" and "Wasted Beauty", they would probably take it at face value that the author has created a gemini character - two separate ids that are actually one in the same person - from different times in our recent history that have a passionate and obsessive connection to the city of New York. Thus the story of Richard Morris (past and somewhat present) is as much about New York as it is an examination of a self-absorbed, self-serving, nihilistic and desirous of all things sensuous and vainglorious writer reliving, through journal entries, his former self while grappling with the self he loves to loathe and loathes to love.
But being familiar with Eric Bogosian the performing artist (which is NOT the same as "performance art"), the media persona, the theatrical craftsman and monologists makes the reading of "Perforated Heart" all the more rich of an experience. Therefore, I'd encourage you to check out Bogosian's plays, one-man shows, movies and novels (not much about his work as an actor on television will add to the enjoyment of "Perforated Heart" - in fact, there is somewhat of a disconnect between the journeyman actor Eric Bogosian serving the storylines of a network procedural cop drama, and the downtown artist who hung out with modern dancers, graphic and performance artists, and the Avant-garde/downtown underground set that - during the Punk Rock heydays of the late-1970s - partied the nights away in joints like CB-GBs and the Kitchen. Because of this, the argument could be made - from an armchair psychologist - that Bogosian's present state as a suburbanite husband and father - as well as becoming a mainstream actor on a network franchise, coupled with his recent decision to retire his work as solo-performer -propelled him to write "Perforated Heart" to reconnect with (and admonish) that edgy, hard drinking and drugging young man with whom he no longer relates, while juxtaposing the confessional prose of his fifty-something alter-ego Richard Morris who is not encumbered by wife and kids and other mundane everyday rituals.)
The powerful force that propels "Perforated Heart" is that every journal entry, even the most mundane, has within it an honesty and awareness that the author is indeed in on the joke. The book itself is fascinating because it's a fictional autobiography, almost as if it is the ghost of a ghost. Thus there's something rather haunting and penetrating about it that I found lingered with me days after completion.
As mentioned in a previous reader comment, elements of a character from one of Bogosian's solo works called "The Fan" appears in the final pages and becomes the target for the protagonist Richard Morris' venom and resentment. Richard meets a young man named Theo at the mental health facility where he goes to visit an old friend of his named Big John (30 years prior, John and Richard had a falling out because John caught Richard audio taping their conversations without his knowledge or consent. Richard used these tapes as a basis for his short stories which launched his career as a writer). Richard takes a shine to Theo and they begin somewhat of a friendship - but the terms of the friendship are dictated solely by Richard (as is usually the case when a younger person seeks mentorship from an older more established mentor). In short, Morris is definitely not Rilke and this is no "Letters to a Young Poet" for sure! The following are excerpts from the book:
"And so this kid Theo walks into my life. Lovely, vibrant, eager, ambitious, handsome, obnoxious, self-involved Theo. He made a decision to visit the lion in his den. Thought the lion would help him out. No, Theo. Lions don't give aid, they watch the young and helpless pups with apparent disinterest. Then they eat them.
What did Theo think I was going to do? Make introductions to editors and publishers and all my buddies? But, Theo, it's your fight. You break down the doors on your own, just as I did. No one did it for me. I'm not doing it for you.
I see it in your eyes. The rapacious hunger for what belongs to me, for my achievement. But, Theo, you can't just walk up to me and take it. It's mine."
Those passages illuminate Richard Morris' perforated heart and clarify - on a slightly metaphysical examination - the reason why it required surgery. There's absolutely no room for sentimentality in Richard Morris' world. He could be nostalgic, at times empathetic (specifically when dealing with the death of an elderly aunt whose letters and writings had been left in his possession for safekeeping) and prone to reminisce about the past - but never sentimental. Therefore, Richard is totally incapable of offering any kind of mentorship or Rilke like support for young Theo on his journey towards the literary limelight. Morris has not this kind of love in his heart.
Why? I put the book down and continued to ask myself questions for days after. Why so coldhearted toward Theo who had so much admiration for Richard and wanted so much to be accepted and appreciated by him? How could Richard be such a powerful writer when he was such an unremitting bastard? These are universal questions of course. Like: why do bad things happen to good people? (Or as comedian Lewis Black once said in his stand-up routine: "the good die young, but pricks live forever!")
What I, as the reader, appreciate most about Eric Bogosian as a novelist is that he dares to present the ugliness of human nature without apology. There's a beauty in his honesty as well as a frustration with how much the world can suck. It's also frustrating that a prick like Richard Morris gains success and notoriety on the world stage, while others with congenial hearts and more caring dispositions toil endless in obscurity and their work is never discovered nor their talents ever appreciated. I know that I didn't like Richard Morris, but I'm "a fan" of Eric Bogosian. Is Bogosian like Richard Morris in his personal life? Doubtful. This is, after all, a work of fiction probably sprung from the experience of Bogosian finding journals he kept when he was first starting out in his 20s back in those Punk heydays of the late-70s.
Being able to remove himself from the experience by creating two fictional characters from two separate times in one man's life allowed him the opportunity to do what he does best: explore the darker side of fame, fortune, male insecurities and abusive behavior and the obsessive nature of trying to achieve recognition as an artist in a world of vacuous commercialism and material excess.
Bogosian's most confessional offering is probably his most fully realized and one that, after the last page is read, may haunt your psyche like a ghost for days to follow.
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