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Chargement... Carson McCullers: A Lifepar Mary V. Dearborn
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Inscrivez-vous à LibraryThing pour découvrir si vous aimerez ce livre Actuellement, il n'y a pas de discussions au sujet de ce livre. Carson McCullers: A Life by Mary V Dearborn is the type of biography I love, well-written, well-researched, and including both the positives and the negatives of the subject. It certainly helps that I've long admired McCullers' work. Reading this made me reflect on my introduction to McCullers when I was very young. I have no doubt I didn't fully grasp the nuance of the film version of The Member of the Wedding, but it had to have been in the mid-60s when I saw it, which puts me just a few years younger than Frankie. Maybe I could relate to her, but whatever it was I loved it and as I grew up I read the rest of her work. When I watch that movie now, I always wish I could go back and find out exactly what touched me so profoundly. Dearborn gives both a more detailed account of McCullers' life as well as a compassionately critical view of her life and career. I not only feel like I understand the writer better, I am anxious to reread the works with this new appreciation of her life. Though, admittedly, the key to her work has always been my feelings for her characters, so I don't expect any great epiphanies. I do think I will gain some insight into the characters by having this new view of McCullers. This will certainly appeal to those who like reading about literary figures, but it is so engaging I think anyone who simply likes biographies in general will find a great deal to enjoy. Reviewed from a copy made available by the publisher via NetGalley. aucune critique | ajouter une critique
V. S. Pritchett called her "a genius." Gore Vidal described her as a "beloved novelist of singular brilliance... Of all the Southern writers, she is the most apt to endure..." And Tennessee Williams said, "The only real writer the South ever turned out, was Carson." She was born Lula Carson Smith in Columbus, Georgia. Her dream was to become a concert pianist, though she'd been writing since she was sixteen and the influence of music was evident throughout her work. As a child, she said she'd been "born a man." At twenty, she married Reeves McCullers, a fellow southerner, ex-soldier, and aspiring writer ("He was the best-looking man I had ever seen"). They had a fraught, tumultuous marriage lasting twelve years and ending with his suicide in 1953. Reeves was devoted to her and to her writing, and he envied her talent; she yearned for attention, mostly from women who admired her but rebuffed her sexually. Her first novel--The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter--was published in 1940, when she was twenty-three, and overnight, Carson McCullers became the most widely talked about writer of the time. While McCullers's literary stature continues to endure, her private life has remained enigmatic and largely unexamined. Now, with unprecedented access to the cache of materials that has surfaced in the past decade, Mary Dearborn gives us the first full picture of this brilliant, complex artist who was decades ahead of her time, a writer who understood--and captured--the heart and longing of the outcast. -- Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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Although the prose is unremarkable and the many characters in the narrative don’t really come to life, Dearborn does a thorough job of documenting McCullers’ life and works. Recommended for those interested in McCullers.
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