In America - Brossura

Sontag, Susan

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0141190108 ISBN 13: 9780141190105

Casa editrice: Penguin Classics, 2009

Riassunto

The story of In America is inspired by the emigration to America in 1876 of Helena Modrzejewska, Poland's most celebrated actress, accompanied by her husband, Count Karol Chlapowski, her fifteen-year-old son, Rudolf, the young journalist and future author of Quo Vadis, Henryk Sienkiewicz, and a few friends; their brief sojourn in Anaheim, California; and Modrzejewska's subsequent triumphant career on the American stage under the name Helena Modjeska.

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L'autore:

Susan Sontag was born in Manhattan in 1933 and studied at the universities of Chicago, Harvard and Oxford. Her non-fiction works include Against Interpretation, On Photography, Illness as Metaphor, AIDS and its Metaphors and Regarding the Pain of Others. She is also the author of four novels, a collection of stories and several plays. Her books are translated into thirty-two languages. In 2001 she was awarded the Jerusalem Prize for the body of her work, and in 2003 she received the Prince of Asturias Prize for Literature and the Peace Prize of the German Book Trade. She died in December 2004.

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'A counter-romance, alternately hilarious and tragic' Christopher Hitchens, Vanity Fair

It is 1876 and Poland's greatest actress, Maryna Zalezowska, is setting off for the new world. At thirty-five she has decided to start a new life and so, accompanied by her family and entourage, emigrates to the US to found a 'utopian commune' in California. When the commune fails, Maryna stays, and reinvents herself again, rocketing to worldwide fame as a theatrical diva, who makes audiences weep and who, it seems, is unstoppable. Based on the real life of a celebrated Polish actress, this lush, expansive and multilayered novel is a richly detailed portrayal of a woman's self-transformation, of love, idealism, play-acting and how we all see ourselves.

'Brave and beautiful ... a story that tells many stories with élan, intelligence and delight' Washington Post Book World

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• Editore: Penguin Classics
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 0141190108
• ISBN 13: 9780141190105
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 400