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The ten brilliant women who are the focus of Sharp came from different backgrounds and had vastly divergent political and artistic opinions. But they all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America and ultimately changed the course of the twentieth century, in spite of the men who often undervalued or dismissed their work. These ten women--Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm--are united by what Dean calls "sharpness," the ability to cut to the quick with precision of thought and wit. Sharp is a vibrant depiction of the intellectual beau monde of twentieth-century New York, where gossip-filled parties at night gave out to literary slugging-matches in the pages of the Partisan Review or the New York Review of Books. It is also a passionate portrayal of how these women asserted themselves through their writing in a climate where women were treated with extreme condescension by the male-dominated cultural establishment. Mixing biography, literary criticism, and cultural history, Sharp is a celebration of this group of extraordinary women, an engaging introduction to their works, and a testament to how anyone who feels powerless can claim the mantle of writer, and, perhaps, change the world. -- Provided by publisher.… (más)
El siglo xx a través de escritoras, periodistas, filósofas, críticas de cine, antropólogas La agudeza en una conversación es muestra del ingenio ágil, de la capacidad de ofrecer un enfoque diferente ante lo cotidiano, en definitiva, de tener una opinión propia. Las mujeres de este libro comparten una cualidad: todas ellas destacan por sus aportaciones al pensamiento y a las transformaciones culturales del siglo xx. Hannah Arendt, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Mary McCarthy, Dorothy Parker, Susan Sontag, Rebecca West, Janet Malcolm, Pauline Kael, Coco Chanel, Lillian Hellman o Frida Khalo desafiaron las expectativas del momento y se hicieron un hueco en un mundo de hombres.
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I gathered the women in this book under the sign of a compliment that everyone of them received in their lives: they were called shap. -Preface
Before she was the lodestar she later became, Dorothy Parker had to go to work at nineteen. That was not how things were supposed to go, not for someone like her. She was born well-enough-to-do in 1893 to a fur merchant. The family name was Rothschild - not those ones, as Parker reminded interviewers all her life. But still a respectable New York Jewish family, financially comfortable enough for Jersey Shore vacations and a large apartment on the Upper West Side of Manhattan. Then er father died in the winter of 1913, devastated by the deaths of two wives and a brother who sank with the Titanic. His children inherited almost nothing. -Chapter 1: Parker
The ten brilliant women who are the focus of Sharp came from different backgrounds and had vastly divergent political and artistic opinions. But they all made a significant contribution to the cultural and intellectual history of America and ultimately changed the course of the twentieth century, in spite of the men who often undervalued or dismissed their work. These ten women--Dorothy Parker, Rebecca West, Hannah Arendt, Mary McCarthy, Susan Sontag, Pauline Kael, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Renata Adler, and Janet Malcolm--are united by what Dean calls "sharpness," the ability to cut to the quick with precision of thought and wit. Sharp is a vibrant depiction of the intellectual beau monde of twentieth-century New York, where gossip-filled parties at night gave out to literary slugging-matches in the pages of the Partisan Review or the New York Review of Books. It is also a passionate portrayal of how these women asserted themselves through their writing in a climate where women were treated with extreme condescension by the male-dominated cultural establishment. Mixing biography, literary criticism, and cultural history, Sharp is a celebration of this group of extraordinary women, an engaging introduction to their works, and a testament to how anyone who feels powerless can claim the mantle of writer, and, perhaps, change the world. -- Provided by publisher.
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La agudeza en una conversación es muestra del ingenio ágil, de la capacidad de ofrecer un enfoque diferente ante lo cotidiano, en definitiva, de tener una opinión propia.
Las mujeres de este libro comparten una cualidad: todas ellas destacan por sus aportaciones al pensamiento y a las transformaciones culturales del siglo xx.
Hannah Arendt, Joan Didion, Nora Ephron, Mary McCarthy, Dorothy Parker, Susan Sontag, Rebecca West, Janet Malcolm, Pauline Kael, Coco Chanel, Lillian Hellman o Frida Khalo desafiaron las expectativas del momento y se hicieron un hueco en un mundo de hombres.