Actors biography
A Diary as a Documentation of One's Performance in One's private LifeAlec Guinness writes My Name Escapes Me - The Diary of a Retiring Actor - in purpose of documentation of his performance to commit his story to the public record. In the diary, Alec Guinness, at 82, shows his wishes to spend his declining years as, "a retiring actor"; he has not done with acting; he is still performing; yet retiring. This time his performance is committed to words in the commissioned diary. I see a diary as documentation of one's life, especially when it is to be shown to public. By definition, a document is a "formal paper bearing important or official information". In the same sense, Alec Guinness's diary is a document of his "act" of writing as Paul Matthew Pierre called. In addition, the facts that it is commissioned and is admissionable to us, the public, that he is a public figure; and that it is commemorating his people suggest Guinness's intentions for his stories and his performances, in the diary to be for the public record.Writing is another way of acting for Alec Guinness. His desire to perform is reluctantly replaced by writing. Alec Guinness wishes to act again: "...if I am to retired, I am in inclined to assume a pain
Again, his identity is immortalized in the words he writes, in the same sense that his previous identities in the films have been immortalized on the screen. However he is unable to escape his role as an actor. *P 10* He openly shows his regrets toward his retirement forced by his senescent body: "I think the T. My mind ruminating on Tuesday's rehearsal. When he does make them, he does so indirectly that they could be interpreted in several different ways. As we are reading his scribbles, we are seeing the other part of him; the inner Alec Guinness. Also his writing is performance in a sense that he is presenting himself in the book. Moreover, he finds another way to remain in the acting business and in the public eye: "The difficulty is the chore of learning (I used to be reasonably reliable and fairly quick, and diminishing physical vitality, both of which would choke any creativity effort. but I can't help feeling an actor should be made of sterner stuff.
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