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As someone deeply invested in dream journals as a literary form as well as well as a big fan of Cornell’s art, I was very intrigued to read his dreams. This is, however, a deeply disappointing book.
The dreams themselves are not only excruciatingly banal, but they are so sparse and ephemeral in their writing style that one wonders what the criteria was for their inclusion. Both the introduction and appendices seem to suggest that this group of dreams was selected from hundreds more, and the editor hails them as visionary and transformative for Cornell in a manner completely not backed up by the dreams they chose to include. It would be interesting to see what dreams Cornell himself would have chosen to include, but clearly Catherine Forman’s choice of what dreams best reflected Cornell’s work was a letdown.
The dreams themselves are not only excruciatingly banal, but they are so sparse and ephemeral in their writing style that one wonders what the criteria was for their inclusion. Both the introduction and appendices seem to suggest that this group of dreams was selected from hundreds more, and the editor hails them as visionary and transformative for Cornell in a manner completely not backed up by the dreams they chose to include. It would be interesting to see what dreams Cornell himself would have chosen to include, but clearly Catherine Forman’s choice of what dreams best reflected Cornell’s work was a letdown.
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