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…mehr
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.
List of Illustrations Introduction A Fire in the Brain / Lucia Joyce Blocked / Writer’s Block True Confessions / Italo Svevo Quicksand / Stefan Zweig The Frog and the Crocodile / Simone de Beauvoir Becoming the Emperor / Marguerite Yourcenar A Hard Case / Primo Levi European Dreams / Joseph Roth The Neapolitan Finger / Andrea de Jorio The Saintly Sinner / Mary Magdalene After the Ball Was Over / Vaslav Nijinsky Heroes and Hero Worship / Lincoln Kirstein “Sweet as a Fig” / Frederick Ashton American Dancer / Jerome Robbins Second Act / Suzanne Farrell The Soloist / Mikhail Baryshnikov The Flame / Martha Graham Dancing and the Dark / Bob Fosse The Bottom Line / Twyla Tharp On the Contrary / H. L. Mencken After the Laughs / Dorothy Parker Feasting on Life / M. F. K. Fisher Finding Augie March / Saul Bellow Piecework / Sybille Bedford The Spider’s Web / Louise Bourgeois Assassination on a Small Scale / Penelope Fitzgerald The Hunger Artist / Susan Sontag Counterlives / Philip Roth Perfectly Frank / Frank O’Hara Devil’s Work / Hilary Mantel Burned Again / Joan of Arc Acknowledgments Textual Permissions Index
List of Illustrations Introduction A Fire in the Brain / Lucia Joyce Blocked / Writer’s Block True Confessions / Italo Svevo Quicksand / Stefan Zweig The Frog and the Crocodile / Simone de Beauvoir Becoming the Emperor / Marguerite Yourcenar A Hard Case / Primo Levi European Dreams / Joseph Roth The Neapolitan Finger / Andrea de Jorio The Saintly Sinner / Mary Magdalene After the Ball Was Over / Vaslav Nijinsky Heroes and Hero Worship / Lincoln Kirstein “Sweet as a Fig” / Frederick Ashton American Dancer / Jerome Robbins Second Act / Suzanne Farrell The Soloist / Mikhail Baryshnikov The Flame / Martha Graham Dancing and the Dark / Bob Fosse The Bottom Line / Twyla Tharp On the Contrary / H. L. Mencken After the Laughs / Dorothy Parker Feasting on Life / M. F. K. Fisher Finding Augie March / Saul Bellow Piecework / Sybille Bedford The Spider’s Web / Louise Bourgeois Assassination on a Small Scale / Penelope Fitzgerald The Hunger Artist / Susan Sontag Counterlives / Philip Roth Perfectly Frank / Frank O’Hara Devil’s Work / Hilary Mantel Burned Again / Joan of Arc Acknowledgments Textual Permissions Index
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