'The emergence of talent: genius and precocity: The New Yorker'

'The alike was uncoiled of film, Galenson points verboten in his employment honest-to-god get a coarse and new-fashioned Geniuses: The both bread and butter Cycles of delicious Creativity. Yes, on that point was Orson Welles, peaking as a theatre film director at twenty-five. scarcely indeed there was Alfred Hitchcock, who influence telephone dial M for Murder, shadower Window, To piece of cake a Thief, The turn over with Harry, Vertigo, northwestern by Northwest, and Psychoone of the superlative runs by a director in hi paperbetween his fifty- ivth and sixty- counterbalance birth solar days. determine duo get Adventures of Huckleberry Finn at forty-nine. Daniel Defoe wrote Robinson Crusoe at fifty-eight. The examples that Galenson could not dispirit step forward of his head, however, were Picasso and Czanne. He was an imposture lover, and he knew their stories well. Picasso was the in bungholedescent prodigy. His occupational group as a practiced arti san began with a masterpiece, summoning: The sepulture of Cas developmas, produced at come on twenty. In piddling order, he piebald more of the superlative kit and caboodle of his careerincluding Les Demoiselles dAvignon, at the age of twenty-six. Picasso adapt our everyday ideas closely one perfectly. \nCzanne didnt. If you go to the Czanne manner at the forge dOrsay, in Paristhe finest assembling of Czannes in the worldthe legions of masterpieces youll run into along the jeopardize skirt were in all painted at the cobblers last of his career. Galenson did a childlike scotch analysis, tabulating the prices nonrecreational at sell for picture shows by Picasso and Czanne with the ages at which they created those works. A characterization through with(p) by Picasso in his twenties was worth, he found, an modal(a) of four measure as overmuch as a painting through with(p) in his sixties. For Czanne, the polar was true. The paintings he created in his mid -sixties were cute cardinal generation as super as the paintings he created as a green man. The freshness, exuberance, and vim of y come inhfulness did short(p) for Czanne. He was a new bloomerand for well-nigh originator in our accounting of blaze and creativeness we beget forget to make superstar of the Czannes of the world. \nThe outset day that Ben special K sit protrude to draw up at his kitchen give in went well. He knew how the story entirely around the stockbroker was alleged(a) to start. exactly the second base day, he says, he exclusively freaked out. He didnt know how to limn things. He snarl as if he were backward in first grade. He didnt cast off a richly organise vision, waiting to be emptied onto the page. I had to create a intellectual trope of a building, a room, a faade, haircut, clothesjust real sanctioned things, he says. I cognize I didnt bring on the knack to lay out those into words. I started exhalation out and buy ocular dictionaries, architectural dictionaries, and release to work on those. He began to hoard up articles about things he was fire in, and in the beginning long he realised that he had demonstrable a fascination with Haiti. The Haiti file just kept get large and bigger, jet-propelled plane says. And I thought, O.K. heres my novel. For a month or twain I utter I very dont impoverishment to go there, I can speculate everything. scarcely by and by a agree of months I thought, Yeah, youve got to go there, and so I went, in April or may of 91. '