Forty-One False Starts: Essays on Artists and Writers - Rilegato

Janet Malcolm

Rilegato

ISBN 10: 1847088465 ISBN 13: 9781847088468

Casa editrice: Granta, 2013

Riassunto

Selected essays from America's foremost literary journalist and essayist, featuring ruminations on writers and artists as diverse as Edith Wharton, Diane Arbus and the Bloomsbury Group. This charismatic and penetrating collection includes Malcolm's now iconic essay about the painter David Salle.

Su questo libro

Recensione:

The clarity of Malcolm's sentences is matched only by the clarity of her thought. She cuts a direct and easy-to-follow path through knotty terrain, never allowing her scepticism about story telling to ruin a good story, nor her skill as a storyteller to overwhelm her commitment to telling the truth. She is helped in this endeavour by her dry wit, her sense of intellectual mischievousness, and her absolute honesty. --The Sunday Times

Reading Malcolm is always thrilling and dangerous. You can never tell what she might uncover next about the everyday horrors of humankind. The prose is taut, the stance uncompromising, but she cares about what she sees. Hers is always a human response. --Gaby Wood, The Daily Telegraph

Malcolm's authorial voice, beady, strict and deeply saner, tends to suggest her superiority as a tale-teller. But she is careful to undermine this by showing her workings. And the trick of it is that the reader only grows more certain that she is more right than most. --Rachel Cooke, The Observer

Malcolm's examination of the relationship between creator and herself illuminates both art and artist. It is a subtle, possibly cynical approach in which what is left unsaid, or simply implied, acquires a devastating significance. --The Times

Forty-One False Starts confirms Malcolm's shrewdness. --The Guardian

This is not slapdash journalism, with glazed-eyed prose. You cannot glance across any page without being drawn in by a personal detail, or the flickering-to-life of a new argument. Nor, with Malcolm s shifting standpoints from which to interrogate, can you fall into lazy judgements. This is a well-laid challenge to readers to open their eyes to how they read, and how to judge. --Independent on Sunday

Forty-One False Starts confirms Malcolm's shrewdness. --The Guardian

Behind the placid, measured, artful prose is a great destabilizing force. --Times Literary Supplement

To read Janet Malcolm is to realise how timid most writers are by comparison. --Prospect

Tightly plotted and steeped in a kind of shivery nuance... Malcolm's work is fiercely intelligent. --Irish Times

Malcolm's trademark is the precision and elegance with which she identifies the heart of the matter in question. --Lucy Scholes, The National

You can't help but admire a journalist who's prepared to forensically investigate not just her subjects, but also herself. --ArtReview

Malcolm's trademark is the precision and elegance with which she identifies the heart of the matter in question. --Lucy Scholes, The National

A master class on the art of the essay from one of its most formidable living practitioners... The collection as a whole shows how connections emerge from the workings of one memorably searching, restless, ruthless mind. --'Books of the Year' chosen by Sarah Churchwell, Guardian

Superbly sceptical and clear-eyed... Anyone interested in biography should read Malcolm; she re-emerges here as a perceptive, fascinated, acerbic commentator on art and photography. Her style is dry and lucid; her crafter perfectly honed. But it is her stance that makes the best of these pieces so effective and unique. --'Books of the Year', Evening Standard

A timeless masterpiece. Reading Malcolm is like subletting a Manhattan apartment from the protagonist of a Woody Allen movie... A world of bohemian sophistication is illuminated by an exacting intelligence which never lets you get too comfortable. --'Books of the Year', Independent

Enjoyable, learned, judicious, impatient with catalogue art-speak and unafraid of technical detail.... Good criticism should send you back to the primary text wearing new contact lenses, and Malcolm's lucid collection of essays does just that. --'Books of the Year', Sunday Times

A new book of essays from the most perceptive living writer of narrative non-fiction. --'Best Books of 2013', Gaby Wood, Daily Telegraph

Enjoyable, learned, judicious, impatient with catalogue art-speak and unafraid of technical detail.... Good criticism should send you back to the primary text wearing new contact lenses, and Malcolm's lucid collection of essays does just that. --'Books of the Year', Sunday Times

L'autore:

JANET MALCOLM is widely considered to be America's pre-eminent literary journalist. She was born in Prague and was educated at the University of Michigan. She is a staff writer for the New Yorker and the author of several critically acclaimed books, including In the Freud Archives, The Journalist and the Murderer, Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey and The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes, all published by Granta. She won the PEN/Jacqueline Bograd Weld Award in Biography for Two Lives: Gertrude and Alice [Yale University Press] in 2008. She lives in New York.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Granta
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1847088465
• ISBN 13: 9781847088468
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 256