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Vivian Gornick

Vivian Gornick (New York, 1935) is one of the world’s most distinguished women writers. She has written several books, including two memoirs, Fierce Attachments and The Odd Woman and the City (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1987 and 2015), the biography of feminist revolutionary Emma Goldman (Emma Goldman. Revolution as a way of life, Yale University Press, 2013) and three collections of essays, two of which, The Men in My Life (Mit Press, 2008) and The End of the Novel of Love(Beacon Press, 1998), were finalists in the National Book Critics Circle Award. She teaches creative writing at the New School, writes for various media, and still lives in New York. In 2017 Vivian Gornick won the prize for the Best Work of Fiction awarded by the Gremio de Libreros de Madrid for the Spanish-language version of Fierce Attachments (Apegos feroces, Sexto Piso, 2017).
years of life: 1935 present

Quotes

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‘That’s the first step, Ma,’ I say softly. ‘The unhappiness has to be made alive before anything can happen.’
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‘I’m saying that nowadays love has to be earned. Even by mothers and sons.’
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Not so with Nettie. Her incapacity would have ingratiated her with the women, created a natural opening into their world – ‘Oh, teach me, tell me, is that how you do it, thank you, Mrs Zimmerman-Roseman-Shapiro-Berger, you’re so wise, I’m so ignorant, so glad to learn what you have to teach’ – but she couldn’t do it, didn’t even know where to begin. She felt exposed before the women, remained silent, unconfiding, hiding her need from all of them.

Impressions

Andrea Diazshared an impression8 months ago
👍Worth reading

No voy a mentir, me costó un poquito agarrarle el ritmo al libro, pero la narración es muy buena y eso me mantuvo enganchada.

Podría decirse que es la historia de su vida: una hija contando su viaje por la vida, como hasta los detalles más pequeños dejaron una marca lo suficientemente profunda en su ser para que, confirme iba creciendo, estas se volvieran parte importante de quien era ella y sobre todo, cómo la relación con su madre siempre tuvo un peso importantísimo a lo largo de su vida.

No es algo que recomendaría, la verdad. Siento que hay que tener mucha paciencia y ganas de sacarle a esta lectura algo que te haga reflexionar, pero tampoco me resultó taaan pesado como esperaba. Es más, las últimas páginas hasta las disfruté bastante.

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