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Bezig met laden... The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir (2015)door Vivian Gornick
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Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek. This was a beautiful little book about friendships, aging, and life in New York City. So many little stories of connections and missed-connections or misunderstandings. I'll be reading her other memoir soon. ( ) My third Gornick and I just have to ask myself, what took so long to find her? Like Laing, she writes about people and how they interact. Gornick lives in NYC and walks the streets of the city to find so many interesting things to talk about. As she walks, she absorbs the drama, humor and humanity on the streets and writes about it using absolutely beautiful prose. On top of that she throws in discussions about authors that I love and authors I would like to get to know. I now know I have to read George Gissing's The Odd Women and Thomas Hardy's Jude the Obscure. And every book she writes is like that. Highly recommended. Vivian Gornick le pone palabras a todo consiguiendo descubrirnos una especie de lenguaje oculto en el que comprendemos muchos de nuestros sentimientos, actitudes, aciertos y errores. Siguiendo un poco la línea de Apegos feroces, la autora sigue recorriendo la ciudad, esta vez sin su madre, aunque esta sigue presente en algunos de los pequeños episodios en los que se organiza esta pieza literaria. Recorriendo su ciudad, Nueva York, nos habla de historia, de su vida, y sobre todo de literatura. A veces los personajes literarios parecen más reales que la gente que conoce o con la coincide. Gornick habla y habla sin parar y de vez en cuando nos da un puñetazo que nos deja k.o. hasta la siguiente revolución. Es verdad que a veces se enrolla de forma innecesaria para explicar conceptos que puede que no tengan tanta trascendencia, pero una aclaración de vez en cuando tampoco viene mal. Dice Gornick que no puede prescindir de las voces de su ciudad, que es un poco lo que nos pasa a nosotras cuando la leemos, porque ese “profuso delicatesen que tiene en su cabeza” es el lenguaje escondido con que ponemos nombre a mucho de lo desconocido que tenemos en las nuestras. Un placer. My first completed book of 2017! Vivian Gornick, where have you and your clear, perfect prose about living and growing older and cities and friendship and great books and all the important shit ever been my whole life? Friends, you must read this. Immediately. Go on. Now. I'll be here impatiently playing with a yo-yo and buying everything Ms. Gornick has ever set down on paper. geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
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"A contentious, deeply moving ode to friendship, love, and urban life in the spirit of Fierce Attachments A memoir of self-discovery and the dilemma of connection in our time, The Odd Woman and the City explores the rhythms, chance encounters, and ever-changing friendships of urban life that forge the sensibility of a fiercely independent woman who has lived out her conflicts, not her fantasies, in a city (New York) that has done the same. Running steadily through the book is Vivian Gornick's exchange of more than twenty years with Leonard, a gay man who is sophisticated about his own unhappiness, whose friendship has "shed more light on the mysterious nature of ordinary human relations than has any other intimacy" she has known. The exchange between Gornick and Leonard acts as a Greek chorus to the main action of the narrator's continual engagement on the street with grocers, derelicts, and doormen; people on the bus, cross-dressers on the corner, and acquaintances by the handful. In Leonard she sees herself reflected plain; out on the street she makes sense of what she sees. Written as a narrative collage that includes meditative pieces on the making of a modern feminist, the role of the flaneur in urban literature, and the evolution of friendship over the past two centuries, The Odd Woman and the City beautifully bookends Gornick's acclaimed Fierce Attachments, in which we first encountered her rich relationship with the ultimate metropolis"-- Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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