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The Odd Woman and the City: A Memoir, by Vivian Gornick
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Détails sur le produit
Broché: 192 pages
Editeur : Farrar, Straus and Giroux; Édition : Reprint (17 mai 2016)
Langue : Anglais
ISBN-10: 0374536155
ISBN-13: 978-0374536152
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13 x 1,4 x 18,9 cm
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This is such a wonderful book. Not really a memoir, it’s more reflections on past and present by an important feminist theorist/critic now in her 70s, living in New York. The living in New York part is crucial because Gornick is choosing to focus on her life as a (now) single, childless woman who finds inspiration and contentment in her daily ramblings around the city.The author grounds her experience in a theoretical framework—the flaneur as anonymous eye happily wandering modern urban spaces—but you’d get her point anyway. Gornick finds much meaning in the random everyday encounters provided by the rich streetlife of a great city. We travel with her down those streets and, given that’s she’s a great story teller, it’s a lot of fun.The Odd Woman and the City integrates Gornick’s observations of city life with fascinating reflections on what it means to be a feminist woman of a certain age, a solitary apartment dweller, a friend of other solitary New Yorkers, etc. Bits of philosophy, literary criticism and autobiography alternate to good effect. Particularly if you share age, experience and a love of urban environments with the author, you are sure to enjoy her book.
Vivian Gornick turned 80 recently and she mines a long life of experience and observation with a pen turned even sharper with age. Anyone with years, and a bit of grit, anyone with a penetrating curiosity and an appreciation for the eclectic, will love reading this book. If you also happen to come from or find comfort in the street life of New York City, the little book is a must read. If you are an aged feminist, all the better. Multiple interesting characters and one charming, and touching, tale after another fill these pages, interspersed with the sarcasm and wit of conversations with her alter ego, a character named Leonard, [imagine the sharp-eyed Leonard Cohen channeling the jaded Oscar Wilde.] He forms a sort of chorus for Gornick’s reflections, and their shared despairs, a kindred New York spirit with an unembellished perspective that is often quite amusing and always enlightening. I love everything she writes [particularly The Situation and the Story] but this may truly be her best yet. Hoping for more.
I LOVE Vivien Gornick's writing. I love her brain, her p.o.v There are so many sentences and passages, that made me feel like someone had just articulated how I see things. or just made me see something differently. I am a New York exile and this book made my longing for NYC even more palpable. She captures the rough, hard-edged gifts the city offers, the flowering of conversations that startle and illuminate, and make you feel the peculiarity of living in this mass of humans. She is alive to all the stimulation that she's surrounded by, and her interactions reflect on her experience of solitude and being the odd woman, aging, and un-partnered. Her insights are by turns, amusing, surprising, critical, painful, or the expression of her fondness for the rest of us humans spinning together on this planet.
A theme that runs through this book is that one does not truly live life while vested in a committed relationship, rather the meaningful growth happens during the transitory period between the meetings; the problem is, such a philosophy often leads to loneliness, as it apparently has in her case. She feels that New York City is the perfect place for quick encounters, quasi friendships, and short-lived lover affairs, because the city is bustling with every-changing characters, many with their own story to tell, and for the most part, noncommittal. Her description of the city reminds me of the character played by Dustin Hoffman in “Midnight Cowboy†where the small time con man is just trying to survive in New York. Gornick appears to feed off of the quirks exhibited by these street people she often runs into on the avenues. In a sense, they justify her existence. Not wanting to be “her mother’s daughterâ€, is the plan for her, but her yearning to live off of the “expressiveness†of these people who have not fled to the suburbs, is likely to keep her on track with this unwanted ending. Her attempt to rationalize her mostly solo existence, by referencing Freud’s theory, that one’s solitary goals are anguishing, but almost impossible to give up because they are needed for the inner souls, is not particularly compelling- for her, or in general. To me, she just seems somewhat selfish. She is good at times describing people. While at an apparently pretentious social dinner, she notices a blonde at the table “who picked fretfully at her food and wore a thin layer of anxiety over her make-upâ€. Throughout the book, she mentions her sidekick, “Leonardâ€, a gay man, she frequently takes long talking-walks with, where they discuss their present and past lives. He seems, emotionally speaking, similarly situated to Gornick; they both appear quite intelligent. One classic line attributed to him is, when he said in response to people blaming the crucifixion of Jesus on the Jews, “It was the Romans who killed him, why don’t they blame the Italians?†I can recommend this book.
Insightful, nostalgic for women who once spent decades living in NyC. A ballad for women whoLive alone and cherish it with all tts contradictory feelings
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