Madonna “Madonna's Back” http://www.harpersbazaar.com/magazine/cover/madonna-interview-1113
Shane Hickey “Madonna: I was raped at knifepoint” http://www.theguardian.com/music/2013/oct/05/madonna-raped-knifepoint-new-york-20s
Harper's Bazaarに掲載されたマドンナ*1のエッセイ。
紐育に出て来たばかりの頃にナイフを突きつけられてレイプされたという告白はたしかに衝撃的であるが、英国文化と米国文化とのギャップの話も興味深い；
また「カバラ」*2を巡って；
When I was 45, I was married again, with two children and living in England. I consider moving to a foreign country to be a very daring act. It wasn't easy for me. Just because we speak the same language doesn't mean we speak the same language. I didn't understand that there was still a class system. I didn't understand pub culture. I didn't understand that being openly ambitious was frowned upon. Once again I felt alone. But I stuck it out and I found my way, and I grew to love English wit, Georgian architecture, sticky toffee pudding, and the English countryside. There is nothing more beautiful than the English countryside.
When the world discovered I was studying Kabbalah, I was accused of joining a cult. I was accused of being brainwashed. Of giving away all my money. I was accused of all sorts of crazy things. If I became a Buddhist―put an altar in my house and started chanting "Nam-myoho-renge-kyo"―no one would have bothered me at all. I mean no disrespect to Buddhists, but Kabbalah really freaked people out. It still does. Now, you would think that studying the mystical interpretation of the Old Testament and trying to understand the secrets of the universe was a harmless thing to do. I wasn't hurting anybody. Just going to class, taking notes in my spiral notebook, contemplating my future. I was actually trying to become a better person.
なお、レイプされた経験を巡っては、トーリ・エイモスの話も参照のこと*3。
*1:Mentioned in http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20070314/1173838768 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080825/1219599350 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20091116/1258338600 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20100423/1272052658 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110104/1294151730
*2:Mentioned in http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20080918/1221763583 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20090304/1236138432 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110226/1298689069 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110429/1304054739 http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20110703/1309670384
*3:See eg. http://d.hatena.ne.jp/sumita-m/20091211/1260507633
