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Henry Anatole Grunwald (1922–2005)

Autor(a) de Salinger: A Critical and Personal Portrait

29 Works 378 Membros 4 Críticas

About the Author

Obras por Henry Anatole Grunwald

Churchill: The Life Triumphant (1965) 102 exemplares
A Saint, More or Less: A Novel (2003) 41 exemplares
The Story of Great Music: Age of Elegance (1968) — Autor — 8 exemplares
Sex in America (1964) 2 exemplares
Paint and Wallpaper 2 exemplares
Life im Krieg (1980) 1 exemplar

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Conhecimento Comum

Data de nascimento
1922-12-03
Data de falecimento
2005-02-26
Sexo
male
Nacionalidade
Austria (birth)
USA (naturalized)
País (no mapa)
USA
Local de nascimento
Vienna, Austria
Educação
New York University
Ocupações
editor
ambassador (U.S.|to Austria)
Relações
Grunwald, Lisa (daughter)
Organizações
Time Magazine

Membros

Críticas

The installation "Electric Earth," debuted at the 1999 Venice Biennale, brought international recognition to the video and media artist Doug Aitkin. In the piece, a dancer roams a transitory realm of wasted landscapes. Aitken, whose protagonists are usually natural landscapes and cityscapes, here links the electrified structures of our urban world with the nervous system of the human body. The piece, with its pop-surrealist overtones, also reveals Aitken's roots as a director of music videos. This artist's book, laid out in a landscape format, presents fascinating views of natural and urban lanscapes and structures from the video. Gijs van Tuyl, in his essay, writes, "You don't have to look through it passively from A to Z...it offers up a space in which the reader can move freely...in order to create a story in the here and now, in the flow of time."… (mais)
 
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petervanbeveren | 1 outra crítica | Jan 26, 2023 |
The installation "Electric Earth," debuted at the 1999 Venice Biennale, brought international recognition to the video and media artist Doug Aitkin. In the piece, a dancer roams a transitory realm of wasted landscapes. Aitken, whose protagonists are usually natural landscapes and cityscapes, here links the electrified structures of our urban world with the nervous system of the human body. The piece, with its pop-surrealist overtones, also reveals Aitken's roots as a director of music videos. This artist's book, laid out in a landscape format, presents fascinating views of natural and urban lanscapes and structures from the video. Gijs van Tuyl, in his essay, writes, "You don't have to look through it passively from A to Z...it offers up a space in which the reader can move freely...in order to create a story in the here and now, in the flow of time."… (mais)
 
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petervanbeveren | 1 outra crítica | Aug 5, 2022 |
"Salinger-The classic critical and personal portrait by more than twenty of his contemporaries" is a fascinating look at a very private person who it seems, accidentally became famous. Originally written in 1962, before he became as famous as a recluse as he was an author, many of the pieces were published in magazines such as Harper's, Time, The Nation, The New Republic, and others.

Reading the thoughts and opinions of writers like John Updike, Dan Wakefield, Joan Didion, William Wiegand, and others was fascinating, and insightful. It makes me wonder what they might say today, 40-50 years later.

His Glass family stories are covered in depth and of course Catcher in the Rye, Franny and Zooey.

Introduced and edited by Henry Anatole Grunwald, "Salinger" is an interesting look at his work and a tiny bit of his life.

I received this book from Meredith at Harper Perennial for review. Thank You!
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joemmama | Feb 24, 2010 |
This is an interesting story, but badly flawed in execution. It's set in late 16th & early 17th-century France, in the wake of the religious wars, the St. Bartholomew's Massacre, & the ascension of Henry IV (after his conversion from Protestantism to Catholicism). The story focuses primarily on two saintly women, both real historical characters; one's story is well preserved, the other is known mostly by references in the other's story. It's a story of faith, faith in service to the poor & sick & orphaned, religion in politics, & politics in religion. But the dialog is wooden, & the author never adequately & plausibly conveys the characters' faith. The last sentence of the "Confession" with which he begins & ends the book may suggest why: "As for me, I believe [Nicole Tavernier, the lesser-known character]… (mais)
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mbergman | Nov 9, 2007 |

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Estatísticas

Obras
29
Membros
378
Popularidade
#63,851
Avaliação
½ 3.5
Críticas
4
ISBN
14
Línguas
1

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