The men in my life
By: Vivian Gornick.
Contributors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
Publisher: The MIT Press; MIT Press
Published: 2008
Place of publication: Cambridge, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 194
ISBN-13: 9780262073035
Subjects: American literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; English literature -- History and criticism -- Theory, etc; Authorship -- Psychological aspects; Social problems in literature; Male authors -- Appreciation; Authorship -- Sex differences; Literature and society
Description: "As Anton Chekhov put it so memorably: "Others made me a slave, but I must squeeze the slave out of myself, drop by drop." Vivian Gornick, a major figure of second-wave feminism, found particular inspiration for this struggle in the work of male writers, from H. G. Wells and Randall Jarrell to V. S. Naipual, James Baldwin, Allen Ginsberg, and Philip Roth. From these talented men who had infinitely more permission to do and be than women, but suffered endlessly from the ravages of anger and self-doubt, Gornick learned what it really means to make art while wrestling with one's inner demons." "The Men in My Life is Gornick at her best: interpreting the intimate relationship between Inner life, social history, and great literature."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: "A Boston Review book."
Table of contents: title: George Gissing: A neurotic for our times; title: H.G. Wells: The beginning of wisdom; title: Loren Eiseley: Excavating the self; title: Randall Jarrell: Reading to save his life; title: Hayden Carruth: Measuring up; title: Allen Ginsberg: America's holy fool; title: Joe Chaikin: "I can't go on, I will go on"; title: Saul Bellow, Philip Roth, and The end of the Jew as metaphor; title: James Baldwin and V.S. Naipaul: America made the difference.