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A l'estime. Mémoires

par Gore Vidal

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Celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his. From his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Gore Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theater, politics, and international society, where he has cut a broad swath, recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made and lost. Among the gathering of notables to be found in these pages are Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy, Tennessee Williams ("the Glorious Bird"), Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Johnny Carson, Greta Garbo, Federico Fellini, Rudolph Nureyev, Elia Kazan, and Francis Ford Coppola. Some of the book's most moving pages are devoted to the illness and death of his partner of five decades, Howard Austen, and indeed the book is, among other things, a meditation on mortality written in the spirit of Montaigne.--From publisher description.… (plus d'informations)
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Wonderful to read this in 2019 when "Lo! thy dread empire, CHAOS is restor'd..." has come to pass in the country he loved.
  ivanfranko | Feb 28, 2019 |
This isn't a chronological biography or memoir but really just a collection of mostly short chapters with Vidal telling various and often funny anecdotes about writers such as Truman Capote and Tennessee (The Bird) Williams and other famous people such as Rudolph Nureyev and Princess Margaret. I listened to the audiobook version which has the added benefit of Vidal doing his Capote and Williams imitation voices and that of others such as Jack Kennedy. So that probably an extra point or two just for the entertainment of the narration.

It seemed to jump the shark when the climax is built around Vidal advocating for the mob-hit / CIA cover-up version of the Kennedy assassination conspiracy and using as his source Lamar Waldron's Ultimate Sacrifice: John and Robert Kennedy, the Plan for a Coup in Cuba, and the Murder of JFK. That seemed to be the totally wrong note to go out on.

His earlier thoughts on mortality and the passing of his companion Howard Austen were more moving. ( )
  alanteder | Dec 25, 2014 |
Terminei há dias a leitura de Point to Point Navigation, a segunda parte das memórias do escritor Gore Vidal. Eu já tinha lido Palimpsest, o primeiro volume das memórias, mas foi já há alguns anos e numa circunstancia particular da minha vida, em que andava muito distraído e desatento de leituras, e o próprio volume do livro (fui confirmar, é incomparavelmente maior do que este), tudo isso faz com que a lembrança dessa leitura seja a de uma coisa um pouco arrastada e por vezes até penosa.
Bom, nada disso neste Point to Point Navigation. Acho que o livro se pode resumir em duas palavras: inteligência e elegância. Uma escrita trabalhada, fluente, nem sempre fácil e simplista, mas sempre simples, carregada de humor, ao serviço das memórias e das observações do autor, que mesmo quando são tendenciosas ou mesmo maldosas, são sempre hábeis e elaboradas.
Como devem ser as memórias, o livro não segue uma estrita linha cronológica (não é uma auto-biografia), e mistura as recordações com as próprias vivências do escritor enquanto as escreve. Isto torna o livro muito vivo, como se estivéssemos a ouvir, numa longa conversa, o autor discorrer sobre a sua vida, contando episódios, propondo reflexões, sendo simpático para umas personagens e impiedoso para outras, saltando de história em história. Vidal fala da América, claro, sempre, da política americana, fala de cinema, de ‘socialites’, de colegas escritores, das suas casas, e fala, muito, mas sempre com pudor e subtileza, de Howard Auster, o homem com quem viveu mais de cinquenta anos, e de cuja relação esta memória é uma espécie de relatório e contas, como se Vidal devesse a Howard este ponto de ordem, este arrumar de casa, antes de conseguir, ele próprio e agora sozinho, prosseguir com a sua própria vida. ( )
  innersmile | May 13, 2008 |
Less a memoir than a collection of tales about the author's life, but never less than enthralling. ( )
  Fledgist | Apr 17, 2007 |
Aside from the fact that this is the first book I was able to enter into LibraryThing with an old CueCat (Mac OS 10.4.9) with no mods, it's more Gore. Not more than you asked for; Gore so that you don't want to ever lose this voice. Even when his views don't agree with yours, you can't deny his education, pedigree, or erudition. Americans such as Gore don't come along often. Treasure him. ( )
  vesuvian | Apr 8, 2007 |
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Celebrated novelist, essayist, critic, and controversialist Vidal ranges freely over his remarkable life with the signature wit and literary elegance that is uniquely his. From his desks in Ravello and the Hollywood Hills, Gore Vidal travels in memory through the arenas of literature, television, film, theater, politics, and international society, where he has cut a broad swath, recounting achievements and defeats, friends and enemies made and lost. Among the gathering of notables to be found in these pages are Jack and Jacqueline Kennedy, Tennessee Williams ("the Glorious Bird"), Eleanor Roosevelt, Orson Welles, Johnny Carson, Greta Garbo, Federico Fellini, Rudolph Nureyev, Elia Kazan, and Francis Ford Coppola. Some of the book's most moving pages are devoted to the illness and death of his partner of five decades, Howard Austen, and indeed the book is, among other things, a meditation on mortality written in the spirit of Montaigne.--From publisher description.

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