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Sto caricando le informazioni... Conversations with Gore Vidal (Literary Conversations Series)di Gore Vidal, Lucinda Ebersole (A cura di), Richard Peabody (A cura di)
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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Gore Vidal reste assez peu connu en France. C'est un esprit brillant et caustique à l'intelligence percutante. Écrivain de talent reconnu, historien, romancier, dramaturge, scénariste, acteur, fin connaisseur de la politique américaine, critique de l'impérialisme américain, il fait partie de ces intellectuels qui comptent dans le paysage des lettres outre-Atlantique. Ce livre d'entretiens (collectés au fil du temps entre 1948 et 2004) donne l'occasion de tracer un portrait en continu de l'auteur et d'aborder des thématiques très différentes. J'avais eu cette référence de livre par un commentaire sur site internet dont je ne me rappelle plus le nom et qui estimait que la qualité littéraire de l'entretien valait le déplacement. Effectivement, on n'est pas déçu de la franchise désarmante de Gore Vidal qui ne baigne pas dans des propos soupe-au-lait. Pour ma part, tout ce qui traite de la vie politique des États-Unis m'a laissé de marbre. Le livre est bien plus intéressant lorsque l'auteur de "Julian" parle de son processus créatif, de sa discipline d'écriture, de la manière dont il aborde les sujets. C'est ce qui fait l'intérêt du livre. Pour les thématiques, je ne suis pas vraiment proche de Gore Vidal, que ce soit sur les sujets de l'homosexualité ou de la religion. Cela étant, ses propos doivent être entendus et le mérite d'un tel livre est de lui donner la parole directement sans passer par le biais d'un roman ou d'une pièce de théâtre. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiLiterary Conversations Series (Vidal)
Almost sixty years ago, Gore Vidal burst onto the literary landscape with his World War II novel Williwaw. He never looked back. To date he has published twenty-nine novels, one short story collection, six theatrical plays, and numerous books of nonfiction. His novel The City and the Pillar was a groundbreaking work in the history of homosexual literature. In Myra Breckinridge Vidal created a ribald parody of sexual morality and identity. In 1967 Vidal published Washington, D.C. It would be the first of seven novels that have come to be known as the American Chronicles, a sprawling history of the empire filled with a cast of the most significant social, literary, and political figures of the United States. Conversations with Gore Vidal features provocative and intriguing interviews with one of America's most prolific authors. Vidal was an enfant terrible in the 1940s and a marginalized homosexual in the 1950s. As Edgar Box he wrote mysteries, and as a screenwriter he penned the script for Ben-Hur. In 1960 he ran for Congress. In the 1990s, he appeared in films such as Gattaca, Bob Roberts, and Shadow Conspiracy. His essay collection United States: Essays 1952-1992, which features 114 pieces on everything from Howard Hughes to French literature, won the National Book Award. Vidal proves himself here to be a witty, acerbic, cantankerous conversationalist, one who is willing to-and often eager to-defy conventional wisdom and lacerate the tired clichés inherent in both politics and literature. A defiant political insider who is related to both the Gores and the Kennedys, he is a proud Leftist who nevertheless does not hesitate to slash at party orthodoxy when he deems it necessary. Richard Peabody and Lucinda Ebersole are the editors of the literary journal Gargoyle, based in Washington, D.C. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Vidal is, as always, witty and sometimes outrageous. But there’s an underlying thoughtfulness and the working of a keen brain on display here, too. His knowledge of American history is formidable, although his conclusions, based on somewhat tenuous evidence, can be far-fetched.
There’s a distinct falling-off in the quality of Gore’s responses as he ages; this is especially noticeable in the 1991 interview with Harry Kloman. He makes a comeback of sorts in the next interview(with Larry Kramer in 1992). His performance in the last conversation, with Amy Goodman in 2003, is both sharp and scary. He discusses the 2000 election, in which Bush lost the popular vote but won the electoral vote in an...unusual way. The parallels to the present conditions are awful and depressing.
I’m a long-time Vidal fan, and thus pre-disposed to like this kind of a book. I’d not choose it as an introduction to him or his work, however.
There is some repetition, as various interviewers tend to ask the same questions with regard to Vidal’s views on his own work and career. (I imagine he found this tedious.) That would be the only real criticism of the book.
There’s some nice remarks about Norman Mailer, his long-time literary rival, but my favorite line, re Truman Capote: I can’t read him; I have diabetes. ( )