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Chargement... Edmund White: The Burning Worldpar Stephen Barber
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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. I found this biography extremely readable, although at times overly laudatory of White's work. Barber is interesting in how he describes the details of White's life and writing, discussing his sexual involvements, to the layers of character and memory in his books, to the details of White's various apartments in his somewhat transient life. It is clear that Edmund White's writing is most important to Barber, as seen through the close reading he gives to each one of White's publications. White rails against the institutionalization of gay writing as a "cause" due to the AIDS crisis, and also seems to want to resist being "contained" or institutionalized himself; Barber, however, differs from the novelist in this way, continually returning to recurring themes of White's life and writing in an attempt to understand him better. There are places in the book where Barber writes as if he is right by White's side: the detailing of White's lover's last days in Morocco before his death from AIDS is unflinchingly portrayed. White is an interesting study in different facets of the self: a writer who could crank out journalism but worked slowly over his fiction; a man who continues to live with HIV and who claims that his writing and his leisurely life pace keep him well; and a hedonist who speaks equally eloquently about love and loss. ( ) aucune critique | ajouter une critique
In his work Edmund White has explored sex and the human body and the city and its sensations and primarily the mercurial evanescence of life and the connection between dying and creativity. Barber documents White's life from his early childhood (recreated in A Boy's Own Story) through his twenties, both in 1962 arriving in New York from the Mid-West which was like going from the 19th to the 20th centuries and in 1969 he participated in the Stonewall riots against homophobic persecution, his life in New York in the seventies and his travelling around North America in the late 1970s to research and write States of Desire, his eye-witness account of the gay male community in a moment of explosive development. In 1983 White moved from New York to Paris with his love John Purcell and a whole new life opened up for him. It was here he met many famous people from Michael Foucault and Herve Guibert through Bruce Chatwin. Edmund White's life acts as a magnificent companion to his novels and sheds light on them. Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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