Elizabeth Hardwick Libri

Una donna ripercorre la sua vita, i volti che ha incontrato e i luoghi in cui ha vissuto. La seguiamo a corse di cavalli nel Kentucky, nei jazz club di New York, assistiamo a Billie Holiday ad Harlem, visitiamo il quartiere Beacon Hill di Boston, trascorriamo l'estate nel Maine e l'inverno a Manhattan. Elizabeth Hardwick, nel suo romanzo più significativo, intreccia in modo magistrale fatti e finzioni, ricordi, riflessioni, ritratti, lettere, desideri e sogni, facendo emergere in vivide vignettes episodi della sua esistenza: la giovinezza a Lexington, i momenti felici e quelli difficili con il marito, il poeta Robert Lowell, i viaggi insieme in Europa e negli Stati Uniti. Con pochi tratti riesce a delineare ritratti vividi delle persone che ha incontrato, mettendo in luce il razzismo, il sessismo e la povertà del suo tempo. "Notti insonni" è uno dei lavori più straordinari della letteratura americana degli ultimi decenni, un libro toccante di memoria e una meditazione letteraria brillante sul ricordo stesso.

The novelist and essayist Elizabeth Hardwick is one of contemporary America's most brilliant writers, and Seduction and Betrayal, in which she considers the careers of women writers as well as the larger question of the presence of women in literature, is her most passionate and concentrated work of criticism. A gallery of unforgettable portraits--of Virginia Woolf and Zelda Fitzgerald, Dorothy Wordsworth and Jane Carlyle--as well as a provocative reading of such works as Wuthering Heights, Hedda Gabler, and the poems of Sylvia Plath, Seduction and Betrayal is a virtuoso performance, a major writer's reckoning with the relations between men and women, women and writing, writing and life.

Compiles a selection of the best literary essays of the year 1985 which were originally published in American periodicals.

The life story of the author of Moby-Dick furnishes an analysis of all of Melville's writings and depicts his days as a whaleship deckhand and his bitterness over the public's failure to embrace his master work, Moby-Dick. 25,000 first printing.

Essays on music, art, pop culture, literature, and politics by the renowned essayist and observer of contemporary life, now collected together for the first time. The Uncollected Essays of Elizabeth Hardwick is a companion collection to The Collected Essays, a book that proved a revelation of what, for many, had been an open secret: that Elizabeth Hardwick was one of the great American literary critics, and an extraordinary stylist in her own right. The thirty-five pieces that Alex Andriesse has gathered here—none previously featured in volumes of Hardwick’s work—make it clear that her powers extended far beyond literary criticism, encompassing a vast range of subjects, from New York City to Faye Dunaway, from Wagner’s Parsifal to Leonardo da Vinci’s inventions, and from the pleasures of summertime to grits soufflé. In these often surprising, always well-wrought essays, we see Hardwick’s passion for people and places, her politics, her thoughts on feminism, and her ability, especially from the 1970s on, to write well about seemingly anything.

›Verführung und Betrug‹ kreist um die Rolle der Frau in der Literatur, sowohl als Autorin als auch als Heldin oder Opfer in den erzählerischen Werken der Weltliteratur. Elizabeth Hardwick stellt uns die Brontës vor Augen, die Frauen in Ibsens Dramen, die »Opfer und Sieger« Zelda Fitzgerald, Sylvia Plath und Virginia Woolf, und die »Amateure«, die Begleiterinnen großer Männer, Dorothy Wordsworth und Jane Carlyle, die selber Tagebücher und Skizzen von hohem Wert hinterließen.(Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine frühere Ausgabe.)