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 Libros
Joan B. Acocella es una periodista estadounidense que ejerce como crítica de danza y de libros para The New Yorker. Su trabajo se distingue por una profunda comprensión de las artes y una habilidad para llegar al meollo de su tema. Acocella analiza la danza contemporánea y las obras literarias con aguda inteligencia y un estilo refinado. Sus ensayos críticos exploran no solo las cualidades estéticas, sino también los contextos culturales y sociales más amplios de las obras de arte, ofreciendo a los lectores perspectivas perspicaces y enriquecedoras.
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.