Mary McCarthy Libros

Mary McCarthy, una de las escritoras norteamericanas más interesantes del siglo XX, nos traslada a los años veinte, cuando quedó huérfana y a su suerte en un mundo de relaciones tan pintoresco, potente y misterioso como la religión católica. Allí estaban sus abuelas: una cristiana piadosa, pero severa y aterradora; la otra judía, que llevaba siempre un velo para ocultar los efectos desastrosos de un estiramiento facial. También su malvado tío Myers, que la golpeaba por el bien de su alma, y la tía Margarita, que mezclaba jugo de naranja con aceite de ricino para pegarle los labios por la noche y evitar que respirara por la boca, una práctica, a sus ojos, nada saludable. Pero estos familiares, tan ajenos como terribles, junto con las monjas de la escuela del convento del Sagrado Corazón, ayudaron a inspirar su sentido devastador de lo sublime y ridículo, y su ingeniosa imaginación de novelista.

Mary McCarthy's essays on Florence, which originally appeared in The New Yorker, offer an insightful, mesmerizing look into Florence's genealogy, archaeology, art, culture, and political life.

American writer Mary McCarthy and Hannah Arendt, a philosopher who had fled Nazi Germany, met in New York City, and soon became friends. In Between Friends, a complete record of their epistolary dialogue which lasted a remarkable 25 years, the two intellectual celebrities trade ideas about politics, literature, and morality, and share gossip and intimate domestic details.

Pass her in the street and she would turn your head, She looks like she has all the answers. She looks like a woman in control. That is until a trip to Vienna turns into a nightmare. Anonymous phone calls, footsteps following her - a stalker.

Published in 1942, Mary McCarthy's first novel creates a fascinating portrait of a 1930s New York social circle.

"The author's personal journey through Florence and Venice, two cities whose names are associated with the Renaissance."--blackwells.co.uk viewed June 29, 2022

Mary McCarthy was a prominent literary figure known for her novels, memoirs, and incisive social criticism. Starting as a theater reviewer, she offered witty commentary on various topics, showcasing her sharp, humorous, and erudite style. This collection of essays spans her career and reflects the cultural controversies in American intellectual life.

In Philip Roth's intimate intellectual encounters with an international and diverse cast of writers, they explore the importance of region, politics and history in their work and trace the imaginative path by which a writer's highly individualized art is informed by the wider conditions of life. With Primo Levi, Roth discusses the stubborn core of rationality that helped the Italian chemist-writer survive the demented laboratory of Auschwitz. With Milan Kundera, he analyzes the mix of politics and sexuality that made him the most subversive writer in communist Czechoslovakia. With Edna O'Brien, he explores the circumstances that have forced generations of Irish writers into exile. Elsewhere Roth offers appreciative portraits of two friends--the writer Bernard Malamud and the painter Philip Guston--at the end of their careers, and gives us a masterful assessment of the work of Saul Bellow. Intimate, charming, and crackling with ideas about the interplay between imagination and the writer's historical situation, Shop Talk is a literary symposium of the highest level, presided over by America's foremost novelist.

The Group follows eight graduates from exclusive Vassar College as they find love and heartbreak, forge careers, gossip and party in 1930s Manhattan.

An absorbing novel about a young man's voyage into adulthood, enlivened by Mary McCarthy's needling wit. You have to go away to understand home, you have to lose yourself to find yourself; Mary McCarthy's insight into her young hero - his awkward growing-up, his efforts to understand his time and place - create an authentic and thoughtful slice of cultural history. Hilary Mantel, Booker prize-winning author of 'Wolf Hall' and 'Bring Up the Bodies'