L'oasis et autres recits

Mary McCarthy's most celebrated novel follows the lives of eight Vassar graduates, known simply to their classmates as "the group". An eclectic mix of personalities and upbringings, they meet a week after graduation to watch Kay Strong get married. After the ceremony, the women begin their adult lives: Traveling to Europe, tackling the worlds of nursing and publishing, and finding love and heartbreak in the streets of New York City. Through the years, some of the friends grow apart and some become entangled in each other's affairs, but all vow not to become like their mothers and fathers. It is only when one of them passes away that they all come back together again to mourn the loss of a friend, a confidante, and most importantly, a member of the group.

Le Groupe

This unique autobiography begins with McCarthy’s recollections of an indulgent, idyllic childhood tragically altered by the death of her parents in the influenza epidemic of 1918.

Mémoires d'une jeune catholique

Le Roman et les idées - Et autres essais - Occasion

Mary McCarthy (1912-1989) è stata una delle intellettuali americane più originali e influenti del Novecento. Il suo romanzo più noto, Il gruppo (Einaudi), la storia di otto amiche uscite da un prestigioso college della East Coast, è una tagliente satira del perbenismo borghese - c'è chi lo considera un Sex and the City ante litteram - e fin dalla sua uscita, nel 1963, si è affermato come un bestseller e un classico contemporaneo. In occasione del centenario della nascita dell'autrice, minimum fax riporta in libreria il suo romanzo d'esordio, Gli uomini della sua vita. È la storia della giovane e attraente Margaret Sargent, che dopo il divorzio, spinta da un inconscio impulso di ribellione, si ritrova a frequentare i circoli intellettuali più bohémien di New York, dove conduce una vita trasgressiva e sessualmente disinibita, lontana anni luce dalla rigida educazione cattolica ricevuta da bambina. Pubblicato originariamente nel 1942, Gli uomini della sua vita si rivelò un vero caso letterario, scandalizzando i contemporanei per la scabrosità delle tematiche affrontate, attirando l'interesse dei critici anche per la sua struttura anticonvenzionale, articolata in sei episodi che si possono leggere come altrettanti racconti autonomi. Irriverente e spregiudicata, Mary McCarthy è una scrittrice modernissima e tutta da riscoprire (nel 2013 minimum fax ripubblicherà anche la sua autobiografia, Ricordi di un'educazione cattolica).

Gli uomini della sua vita

Mary McCarthy takes readers on a captivating journey to one of the world's most beloved citiesMary McCarthy brings her novelist's unerring eye to a book that blends art, politics, religion, music, and history to create a living portrait of "the world's loveliest city."Like a painter capturing the city's essence on canvas, McCarthy uses words to create stunning visuals that bring both the old and new Venice to enchanting life. From her apartment overlooking the garden of a palazzo, McCarthy takes us into the museums and monasteries of this city of canals and gondolas, Machiavelli and Tintoretto. And she reveals some little-known facts: Venetians love pets, but prefer cats to dogs; during World War II, the Allies captured the city with a fleet of gondolas; and without Napoleon, Venice wouldn't be what it is today. From the ancient roots of "The" "Merchant of Venice"'s pound of flesh to the quotidian details of daily life, it's all here--the magnificent frescoes, the sublime music of Mozart, the virgins, and the saints. At once a comprehensive travelogue and a powerful piece of reportage, "Venice Observed" is a testimony of McCarthy's love affair with the City of Canals.This ebook features superb color reproductions of the works of Giorgione, Veronese, Titian, Canaletto, Guardo, Bellini, and Tiepolo, and an illustrated biography of Mary McCarthy including rare images from the author's estate.

En observant venise

Le Groupe, ce sont huit jeunes filles qui ont fait leurs études ensemble dans l'élégant collège américain de Vassar. Elles appartiennent toutes à la «classe 33». Leur histoire, à la fois triste et cocasse, commence par une cérémonie de mariage à New York, aux premiers jours de l'administration Roosevelt, et se termine sur l'enterrement de l'une d'elles à New York pendant la guerre, à l'époque du blitz de Londres.Relations sexuelles, cuisine, décoration d'intérieurs, façon d'élever les enfants, et mille autres problèmes - sans oublier la politique - sont évoqués de façon concrète à propos du destin particulier de chacune des huit héroïnes.

Le groupe

C'était en juin 1933 ; huit amies, Kay, Dottie, Mary, Priss, Libby, Elinor, Helena et Polly, obtenaient leur diplôme. Huit jeunes filles brillantes, pleines de rêves, d'envies et de désirs, qui entamaient leur vie adulte.
Moins d'une décennie plus tard, c'est à sept qu'elles se rendront à l'enterrement de la huitième.
Entre-temps, il y aura eu l'amour, le couple, les enfants, la vie professionnelle, la vie domestique, les espoirs déçus, la difficulté à trouver sa place, les petites joies, les grandes désillusions...
 
Paru en 1963, et en 1965 en France, Des filles brillantes est une oeuvre culte aux États-Unis. Des générations de jeunes femmes se sont reconnues dans ces portraits aussi saisissants que touchants, dans ce tableau moderne des aspirations féminines étouffées par une société américaine encore fortement marquée par un patriarcat d'un autre âge. Une lecture toujours d'une vive actualité, à redécouvrir d'urgence.

Des filles brillantes

Une évocation de cette ville d'exception, associée à une histoire dont les protagonistes ont largement fondé notre univers culturel, artistique et historique.

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