The autobiography-of-sorts of André Gregory, an iconic figure in American theater and the star of My Dinner with André This is Not My Memoir tells the life story of André Gregory, iconic theatre director, writer, and actor. For the first time, Gregory shares memories from a life lived for art, including stories from the making of My Dinner with André. Taking on the dizzying, wondrous nature of a fever dream, This is Not My Memoir includes fantastic and fantastical stories that take the reader from wartime Paris to golden-age Hollywood, from avant-garde theaters to monasteries in India. Along the way we meet Jerzy Grotowski, Helene Weigel, Gregory Peck, Gurumayi Chidvilasananda, Wallace Shawn, and many other larger-than-life personalities. This is Not My Memoir is a collaboration between Gregory and Todd London who create a portrait of an artist confronting his later years. Here, too, are the reflections of a man who only recently learned how to love. What does it mean to create art in a world that often places little value on the process of creating it? And what does it mean to confront the process of aging when your greatest work of art may well be your own life?

アンドレ・グレゴリーが放つ本書は、人生を「即興劇」として昇華させる魂の記録です。虚実が混じる熱病のような文体は、創作への渇望と加齢への対峙、そして晩年に辿り着いた愛の本質を鮮烈に描き出します。芸術を生きるとは何かという問いへの、美しくも残酷な回答がここにあります。 名作「マイ・ディナー・ウィズ・アンドレ」の背景を明かす章では、映像が切り取った対話の深淵が補完され、メディアを越えた極上のシナジーが生まれています。映画の残像を追いながら、人生という最大の芸術を味わい尽くす。表現者の孤独と歓喜に触れたい全ての読者へ、情熱を込めて贈る一冊です。