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In a thousand novels of love-in-the-Western-world, the progression of feeling between a woman of intelligence and a man of will is charted through a ...Show synopsisIn a thousand novels of love-in-the-Western-world, the progression of feeling between a woman of intelligence and a man of will is charted through a struggle that ends when the woman melts into romantic longing. In twelve new and collected essays, memoirist and critic Vivian Gornick explores a century of novels in which the authors have portrayed women who challenge the desire to be swept away. Exploring the writing of Jean Rhys, Clover Adams, Christina Stead, Willa Cather, Grace Paley, Hannah Arendt, Andre Dubus, Raymond Carver, and others, Gornick shows us how novels have increasingly questioned the inevitability of love and marriage as the path to self-knowledge and fulfillment. Most recently, it is the drama of our own frightened or angry selves in the presence of love that has become our preoccupation; the novel in which romantic love is a metaphor for salvation can no longer make great literature. Combining her brilliant critical writing with her sharp psychological insights into the lives of the writers she admires, Gornick offers us beautiful essays on the complex struggle in literature between the solitary self and the desire for love.Hide synopsis
Description:New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 160 p....New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. 160 p. Audience: General/trade.
Description:New in New dust jacket. 0807062227. New book in crisp DJ;...New in New dust jacket. 0807062227. New book in crisp DJ; discusses kate Chopin, Jean Rhys, Clover Adams, Willa Cather, Christina Stead, Arendt and Heidegger, Grace Paley and others.; 0.8 x 8.5 x 5.8 Inches; 165 pages.
Description:New. Ships From Canada. New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding....New. Ships From Canada. New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 160 p. Audience: General/trade. From Library Journal Essayist Gornick's (Approaching Eye Level, LJ 9/96) critical incisions are swift and certain, and in this latest collection she performs her literary surgery on writers who pursued in their work or represented personally a fatal flaw of self-knowledge: Kate Chopin, Jean Rhys, Willa Cather, and Hannah Arendt, among others. Gornick is interested in writers who transcend the 19th-century notion of romantic love? she uses the suicide of high-minded Clover Adams, trapped in her marriage to Samuel, as an emblem of that storybook failure. Gornick writes of Rhys that she managed to "'"leave obsession behind"'" and "'"pull from herself the long life of slowly clarifying thought that justifies a writer's life. "'" In one essay, Gornick even deigns to include in her canon "'"tenderhearted men"'"? Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, Andre Dubus? who treat in their work the "'"
Description:New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 160 p....New in new dust jacket. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. 160 p. Audience: General/trade. From Library Journal Essayist Gornick's (Approaching Eye Level, LJ 9/96) critical incisions are swift and certain, and in this latest collection she performs her literary surgery on writers who pursued in their work or represented personally a fatal flaw of self-knowledge: Kate Chopin, Jean Rhys, Willa Cather, and Hannah Arendt, among others. Gornick is interested in writers who transcend the 19th-century notion of romantic love? she uses the suicide of high-minded Clover Adams, trapped in her marriage to Samuel, as an emblem of that storybook failure. Gornick writes of Rhys that she managed to "leave obsession behind" and "pull from herself the long life of slowly clarifying thought that justifies a writer's life. " In one essay, Gornick even deigns to include in her canon "tenderhearted men"? Raymond Carver, Richard Ford, Andre Dubus? who treat in their work the "loss of romantic possibility. " While Gornick's hyperbolic pronoucements lose their umph after a while, her writing is so clean and precise that the reader gasps for more. Highly recommended. ? Amy Boaz, "Library Journal" Copyright 1997 Reed Business Information, Inc. From Kirkus Reviews Essayist and journalist Gornick (Fierce Attachments, 1987; The Approaching Eye, 1996) gathers under one cover 11 essays that explore the meaning of love and marriage as literary themes in the 20th century. Gornick writes in a pithy, intensely concentrated literary style that is individual, uncannily precise, and a pleasure to read. Consider her comments on Grace Paley's prose: ``These sentences are born of a concentration in the writer that runs so deep, is turned so far inward, it achieves the lucidity of the poet....The material is at one with the voice speaking. '' This is true of Gornick's own prose. She has the extraordinary ability to cut to the bone of our common experience with just a few, well-chosen words. What makes her work unusual for a book of this sort is that she persuades by the power of her language-...
