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 Livres
Joan B. Acocella est une journaliste américaine, critique de danse et de livres pour The New Yorker. Son travail se distingue par une profonde compréhension des arts et une capacité à aller au cœur de son sujet. Acocella analyse la danse contemporaine et les œuvres littéraires avec une intelligence vive et un style raffiné. Ses essais critiques explorent non seulement les qualités esthétiques, mais aussi les contextes culturels et sociaux plus larges des œuvres d'art, offrant aux lecteurs des perspectives perspicaces et enrichissantes.
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.