Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays
A Nonfiction, Criticism, Biography book. What allows genius to flower is not neurosis but its...
From one of our most admired cultural critics ("A marvelous, canny writer"--Terry Castle, "London Review of Books"), thirty-one essays on some of the most influential artists of our time--writers, dancers, choreographers, sculptors--and two saints of all time, Joan of Arc and Mary Magdalene. Among the people discussed: Italo Svevo, Stefan Zweig, Simone de Beauvoir, Marguerite Yourcenar, Joseph Roth, Vaslav Nijinsky, Lincoln Kirstein, Jerome Robbins, Martha Graham, Bob Fosse, H. L. Mencken, Dorothy Parker, Susan Sontag, and Philip Roth. What unites the book is Acocella's interest in the making of art and in the courage, perseverance, and, sometimes, dumb luck that it requires. Here is Acocella on Primo Levi, a chemist who, after the Nazis failed to kill him, wrote Survival in Auschwitz, the noblest of the camp memoirs, and followed it with twelve more books . . . Hilary Mantel, the aspiring young lawyer...
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What allows genius to flower is not neurosis but its opposite... ordinary Sunday-school virtues such as tenacity and above all the ability to survive disappointment. Joan Acocella, Twenty-eight Artists and Two Saints: Essays //
Joan Acocella is an amazing writer, and this is a great book of literary essays drawn from her contributions to the New Yorker.Here is my interview with Joan Acocella for the February 2007 issue of BookPage.http://www.bookpage.com/0702bp/joan_a... Check out some excerpts here. Every time I was about to put this book down for good, I would read a few sentences of the next essay and was sucked back in. For a dance world neophyte such as myself, the essays on dance figures were by far the richest and most entertaining.
