Núria Añó

The Salon of Exiled Artists in California: Salka Viertel took in actors, prominent intellectuals and anonymous people in exile fleeing from Nazism (eBook, ePUB)

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Produktbeschreibung

Salka Viertel was a Jewish actress who emigrated to Hollywood and was popularly known as the screenwriter of the Swedish actress Greta Garbo. Besides, she had a salon in Santa Monica, which was attended by a large part of the European intelligentsia in exile.

The book deals with topics such as Salka Viertel's alleged bisexuality and the number of friends she had, to name but a few: Albert Einstein, Charles Chaplin, Sergei Eisenstein, F. W. Murnau, Max Reinhardt, Arnold Schönberg, Thomas Mann, Bertolt Brecht, Greta Garbo, Montgomery Clift... Also, like Gertrude Stein and other notorious women, she had her literary salon through which writers like Truman Capote, Christopher Isherwood, Gore Vidal and many other writers passed. Other themes she covers are the Berlin of the 1920s; the transition from silent to spoken film, as seen from the Mecca of Hollywood. Then, the rise of Hitler and what it meant for the Jewish condition; the exile of those intellectuals who could not return to their respective countries because of the Second World War. Later, the Cold War and the witch-hunt against communism. The background to the life of Salka Viertel and her circle of friends encompasses the great events of the 20th century.

Salka was a very modern and interesting woman for her time who should be recognized as such.

"Even though Salka Viertel was such a pivotal figure in the exile community, very little has been written about her, so Núria Añó's book is a corrective, and she fills in many of the gaps of The Kindness of Strangers."Dialog International

"A very interesting story and I think even in these very current times since in my eyes we have not made much progress on the issue of acceptance of 'interpersonal feelings' in general. A great and extremely interesting book about Hollywood in the thirties and forties about the influence of artists from European countries such as Germany, Austria, France, Sweden, England, Ukraine and others. An extensive and high-quality research project resulting in an in-depth account of many well-known and famous personalities and their interpersonal relationships."Joannes W. M. Groenewege, Translator

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Núria Añó
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798201782894
• Artikelnr.: 63107377

Autorenporträt

NÚRIA AÑÓ is a Catalan/Spanish writer, translator and at international conferences she usually talks about literary creation, cinema, cities or authors. She has shown her work at the University of Lleida, Tunis University, University of Jaén, International University of Andalucia, Spanish National Research Council, The Sysmän Kirjasto Library in Finland, The Shanghai Writers' Association, Fudan University, The East China Normal University, Sinan Mansion, The Instituto Cervantes in Shanghai, the Conrad Festival, Massolit Books, Bar Baza and the Instituto Cervantes in Krakow.

Her works have been translated into Spanish, French, English, Italian, German, Polish, Chinese, Latvian, Portuguese, Dutch and Greek.

Her first novel Els nens de l'Elisa (2006) was awarded third prize in the 24th Ramon Llull Novel Award. L'escriptora morta [The Dead Writer] (2008); Núvols baixos [Lowering Clouds] (2009); La mirada del fill (2012) and the biography on Salka Viertel, El salón de los artistas exiliados en California [The Salon of Exiled Artists in California] (2020).

Her writing centres around the characters' psychology, often through the use of anti-heroes. The characters are what stands out most about her work; they are more relevant than the topic itself. With an introspection, a reflection, not sentimental, but feminine, she finds a unique balance between the marginal worlds of parallels. Her novels are open to a wide variety of topics, they deal with important social and current themes like injustice or lack of communication between individuals. The basic plot of her novels does not tell you everything there is to know. By using this method, Añó attempts to involve the reader so that they ask their own questions to discover the deeper meaning of the content.

Núria won the 18th Joan Fuster Prize for Fiction, fourth place for international writing at the 2018 Shanghai get-Together and has been awarded with prestigious grants: NVL (Finland, 2016), SWP (China, 2016), BCWT (Sweden, 2017), IWTCR (Greece, 2017), UNESCO City of Literature (Poland, 2018), IWTH (Latvia, 2019) and IWP (China, 2020). For a more detailed background of the author, visit her webpage www.nuriaanyo.com.