Has Been Down As Old It Seems Like Until Me is a novel by Richard FariÃÆ' Â ± a. First published in the United States in 1966 the novel, largely based on FariÃÆ' Â ± a college experience and journey, is a picaresque comic story set in the Western United States, in Cuba during the Cuban Revolution, and at a New York university part north. The name of the protagonist is Gnossos Pappadopoulis, a modern Odysseus. This book has become something of a classic cult among those who study literature of the 1960s or counter-culture.
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FariÃÆ' Â ± a wrote a novel while a student at Cornell University. The novel is mixed with reference pseudonyms to Cornell University ("Mentor University"), Cornellians and Ithaca landmarks. Gnossos was a happy anarchist, climbing a creche statue from a bridge to one of Ithaca's famous canyons, smoking marijuana at a fraternity party, making fun of nausea, red beer, retsina, and martini, arrogant. while chasing a female student in green socks and looking for karma. After a detour to Cuba during the anti-Batista rebellion, Gnossos returned to "Athene" to become an unintentional student rebel leader against a university decree that would ban women from male apartments.
Farina's agent, Robert Mills, began to advertise it as a work in progress for several British publishers in 1963. It was finally handed over to Random House and accepted by them in April 1965. Jim Silberman is the editor of his book. FariÃÆ' Â ± a paid a $ 5,400 cash advance for his novel and his release was announced for the fall of 1965 but was rescheduled for the spring publication season of April 1966. The title emerged from the line in the 1928 blues song "I Will Turn Your Green Green", by Furry Lewis, which was included in the notes issued in 1953, 1959 and 1961. FariÃÆ' Â ± a himself recorded the song version with Eric von Schmidt in 1963.
On April 30, 1966, two days after the publication of his book, Farià ± a attended a book signing ceremony at Carmel Valley Village bookstore, Thunderbird (to be followed the next day by another at the Discovery Bookshop in San Francisco). Later that day, while at a party, he saw a guest on a motorcycle and went up Carmel Valley Road eastward to Cachagua on the back of a motorcycle. On S-turn - by accident, just above the spot on the Carmel River where John Steinbeck organizes the frog hunt that the inhabitants of Cannery Row appear in the Cannery Row novel - the driver loses control. The motorbike misses on one side on the right side of the road, back to the other side and tears the barbed wire fence into a field where there is now a small vineyard. The driver survived, but Farià ± a was killed instantly.
Thomas Pynchon, who was acquainted with FariÃÆ'Â ± while they attended Cornell University together, then dedicated his book Gravity's Rainbow (1973) to him and portrayed the novel FariÃÆ'Â ± a as "coming as done by Hallelujah Choir by 200 kazoo players with a perfect tone... funny, horrible, sexy, deep, maniac, beautiful and embarrassing at all at the same time, "in the introduction to the paperback version Been Down... .
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Adaptations
Paramount Pictures began filming the cinematic adaptation of the novel FariÃÆ' Â ± a on May 25, 1970, with major photography completed by the end of July. It was filmed at a location in Allegheny College in Meadville, Pennsylvania. The film was directed by Jeffrey Young and featured Barry Primus (as Gnossos), Linda De Coff and David Downing. It does not receive good reviews and remains a home-based video that is hard to find.
References
External links
- Pynchon Introduction to the novel
- Novel analysis
- Vincent Canby (September 16, 1971). "Been Down So Long 'in the Movie". The New York Times. Ã,
- Information about the movie version
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