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Cargando... Fierce Attachments: A Memoir (2005)por Vivian Gornick
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. Memorias de la escritora y activista Vivian Gornikck. ( ) Gornick, una mujer madura, camina con su madre, ya anciana, por las calles de Manhattan, y en el transcurso de esos paseos llenos de reproches, de recuerdos y complicidades, va desgranando el relato de la lucha de una hija por encontrar su propio lugar en el mundo. Desde muy temprano, Gornick se ve influenciada por dos modelos femeninos muy distintos: uno, el de su madre; el otro, el de Nettie. Ambas, figuras protagónicas en el mundo plagado de mujeres que es su entorno, representan modelos que la joven Gornick ansía y detesta encarnar, y que determinarán su relación con los hombres, el trabajo y otras mujeres durante el resto de su vida.
In this deeply etched and haunting memoir, Vivian Gornick tells the story of her lifelong battle with her mother for independence. There have been numerous books about mother and daughter, but none has dealt with this closest of filial relations as directly or as ruthlessly. Gornick's groundbreaking book confronts what Edna O'Brien has called "the prinicpal crux of female despair": the unacknowledged oedipal nature of the mother-daughter bond. Born and raised in the Bronx, the daughter of "urban peasants," Gornick grows up in a household dominated by her intelligent but uneducated mother's romantic depression over the early death of her husband. Next door lives Nettie, an attractive widow whose calculating sensuality appeals greatly to Vivian. These women with their opposing models of femininity continue, well into adulthood, to affect Gornick's struggle to find herself in love and in work. As Gornick walks with her aged mother through the streets of New York, arguing and remembering the past, each wins the reader's admiration: the caustic and clear-thinking daughter, for her courage and tenacity in really talking to her mother about the most basic issues of their lives, and the still powerful and intuitively-wise old woman, who again and again proves herself her daughter's mother. Unsparing, deeply courageous, Fierce Attachments is one of the most remarkable documents of family feeling that has been written, a classic that helped start the memoir boom and remains one of the most moving examples of the genre. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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