Defending Willa Cather against historical and critical distortions, the author argues that Cather's central vision was a tragic vision of the human condition rather than a firm political agenda.
Joan Acocella Knihy
Joan B. Acocella je americká novinárka a tanečná a knižná kritička pre The New Yorker. Jej práca sa vyznačuje hlbokým porozumením umeniu a schopnosťou preniknúť k podstate predmetu svojho záujmu. Acocella sa venuje analýze súčasného tanca aj literárnych diel s bystrou inteligenciou a vytriedeným štýlom. Jej kritické eseje skúmajú nielen estetické kvality, ale aj širší kultúrny a spoločenský kontext umeleckých diel, čo čitateľom ponúka podnetný a obohacujúci pohľad.
Here is a dazzling collection from Joan Acocella, one of our most admired cultural critics: thirty-one essays that consider the life and work of some of the most influential artists of our time (and two saints: Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene). Acocella writes about Primo Levi, Holocaust survivor and chemist, who wrote the classic memoir, Survival in Auschwitz; M.F.K. Fisher who, numb with grief over her husband’s suicide, dictated the witty and classic How to Cook a Wolf; and many other subjects, including Dorothy Parker, Mikhail Baryshnikov, and Saul Bellow. Twenty-Eight Artists and Two Saints is indispensable reading on the making of art—and the courage, perseverance, and, sometimes, dumb luck that it requires.
The New Yorker critic examines the books that reveal and record our world in a new essay collection.