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 Libri
Joan B. Acocella è una giornalista americana che ricopre il ruolo di critica di danza e di libri per The New Yorker. Il suo lavoro si distingue per una profonda comprensione delle arti e per la capacità di arrivare al cuore del suo soggetto. Acocella analizza la danza contemporanea e le opere letterarie con acuta intelligenza e uno stile raffinato. I suoi saggi critici esplorano non solo le qualità estetiche, ma anche i più ampi contesti culturali e sociali delle opere d'arte, offrendo ai lettori prospettive acute e arricchenti.
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.