Please open https://hotaudiobook.com ONLY on your standard browser Safari, Chrome, Microsoft or Firefox to download full audiobooks of your choice for free.

Title: Klaus Kinski

Author: Marcelle Clements

Narrator: Marcelle Clements

Format: Unabridged

Length: 1 hr and 10 mins

Language: English

Release date: 01-17-17

Publisher: Audible Studios

Ratings: 4.5 of 5 out of 3 votes

Genres: Arts & Entertainment, Celebrity Bios

Publisher's Summary:

"You can witness Klaus Kinski have a mood swing within a minute, within a sentence, as his mind conveys him from an infuriating image to a soothing one to a humorous one. If you watch his face while he speaks, you will see it become a mask of ire, his glance menacing as he spits out words of contempt and outrage. Then suddenly, there'll be a smile of such gentleness that something will constrict in your chest."

Klaus Kinski is Marcelle Clements' enigmatic profile of the enigmatic German actor, who - possessed by an unnamable "thing", which Kinski himself describes as an ability to "incarnate" - starred in more than 130 films, even as the very "thing" that allowed him to create continually devoured him. Klaus Kinski was originally published in Playboy, January 1985.

Members Reviews:

Can Kinski Be Understood? Heck No...Appreciated...Hell Yes!

This was a wonderful piece on a very difficult to understand artist. By allowing his own confusion and conflicting feelings about Klaus Kinski to show, he made it easier for us all to understand the seeming chaos, but basic unity of outlook he has. I found it enlightening, fascinating, and extremely well written. It makes a great difference in my approach to Kinski's work, and I don't think you can ask for more from a writer!

Klaus Kinski's intense madness & despair

Of the three pieces that Ms. Clements has allowed Amazon to republish so far, this one is the longest and ostensibly the most straightforward: a profile of a famous actor. Simple. Expect the actor here is the forbidding and mercurial Klaus Kinski. One might as well have asked Clements to interview a tornado.

What's fun and worthwhile about this essay, to me, then, is how cheerfully Clements interviews the tornado. In submitting to the hallucinatory force of his nature, she notices, for example, his torrential manner of speaking--of leading you to central truths about acting by spiraling around and around them. (It's especially a feat of journalism to convey this since, as she explains, Kinski made it all but impossible for her to record their conversations). She offers us, hilariously, his terrifying instructions to her as she drives them around ("Why do you go so SLOW! Just GO!!!").

Clements, as usual, writes perceptively, in a controlled and wittily observant prose style: "This is what I found most compelling about Kinski: his ability both to experience and to deny despair. He seemed to me like a man at the end of his rope who screams...at the rope.'" Rather than dismiss him as a madman, she engages Kinski on his own terms, and in turn he opens up to her. She picks apart the contradictory elements that make him up as a person, that seem to be warring within him and cohere only when he's embodying a character. Miraculously, she gets to the heart of Kinski's wild-man appeal, and pries loose from him a piece of the turmoil that made him such a gifted artist. Highly, highly recommended.

Five Stars

Highly recommended. Ambrosial portrait of an artist.