Morality is part of human nature, but children have a development program, which includes the development of morality; you cannot expect the same social behavior from a child as from an adult. Interpreting children’s behavior as bad is always misinterpretation. Original sin is making a child confess to a crime it hasn’t committed.

 

   The Fall is something that happens to practically everyone in this world, but not all people sell their souls to the devil by giving up on the principle of equality. In the bible the story is written with the pen of the devil, demonstrating the properties of the evil that is the result of that, sexism, inconsistency, absence of imagination…incapacity to love.

Oscar Wilde tells the story again in “The Picture of Dorian Grey” and again the story is told, for a large part, with the voice of the devil. It’s the analysis of evil, but the Fall itself is only referred to, as it happened when Dorian was a child.    

   You can see “If I Did It” as complementary to that, as it’s mainly about the Fall itself.

  

 

 

 

If I Did It, by O.J. Simpson: a review.  

 

   There should be two categories of literary reviews; the ones you read to find out whether you want to read the book and the ones that give you someones interpretation of it; these you might only want to read after you have read the book yourself. I will divide my review into two parts. Part I falls in the first category. Part II is my interpretation.

 

Part I

    I have my stereotypes. It took me a long time to find out a sports' hero could also be a great actor, and even then I didn’t expect that “If I Did It” would be literature. It is the most important book I ever read, about the most important subject in the world. It breaks your hart.

   For twelve hours a play for two actors has been performed. Author, director and leading actor: O.J. Simpson, co-starring: the ‘ghostwriter’ Pablo Fenjves. The book itself is a transcript of Mr. Simpson’s lines, Mr. Fenjves has only served as secretary, working out the tape. “I didn’t think I’d created a lasting work of art” says Mr. Fenjves, and he is right; he didn’t create anything. Don’t worry, you won’t hear his voice in it.

   His function was to “force” the hero of the story to “confess” and tell that story to the world. He did what he was expected to do, quite unaware that he had been turned into a character in a work of fiction. He told his story in the media and later, invited by the Goldman’s, in a “Prologue” added to the book.