FIERCE ATTACHMENTS IN THE READING CLUB
el martes, 6 April the monthly appointment of the Santa Eulària des Riu Reading Club hosts two readings by Vivian Gornik, one of the most prominent voices in the years 70 of the second wave feminist of the United States: ‘Fierce Attachments’, and ‘The singular woman and the city’.
Gornick writes in Fierce attachments about his life experience that he explains in the first person. One of his reference works. The book was published in English at 1996 but it was not translated into Spanish until 2019 (Editorial Sixth Floor). It is considered a classic of American memorialism. In the play, he reconstructs his childhood in a block of Jewish families in the Bronx with two widows.: his mother, whose early loss of her husband plunges her into endless bitter mourning; y Nettie, the neighbor, who, when left alone, takes the opposite path and finds in sex their preserve of power. These childhood memories are interspersed with tough arguments between an adult Gornick and her mother that they have during their weekly walks through Manhattan..
Thirty years later at 80 years publishes a second part, The singular woman and the city (2015) the story of a woman who walks alone through the city and collects conversations and encounters, recall readings, loves and stories of before and now.
Vivian Gornick (The bronx, NY; 14 de junio de 1935), Bachelor of Fine Arts from New York University, he is a journalist, feminist writer and activist.
His journalistic career began in the Village Voice where was a reporter. From that first job, she began to give voice to the feminist movement, something she's done her entire career and is known for. He has also collaborated with other media among which we can highlight The New York Times, The Nation y The Atlantic Monthly.
Gornick He has published eleven books, of which only Write personal narrative, Look straight ahead, Fierce attachments and its continuation The singular woman and the city have been published in Spanish.
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