Come Back in September: A Literary Education on West Sixty-seventh Street, Manhattan
ダリル・ピンクニーがエリザベス・ハードウィックとバーバラ・エプスタインとの交友を軸に、1970年代のニューヨーク文学界を回想する回想録。個人的な成長の記録であると同時に、文化的・知的な共同体の肖像にもなっている。
作品情報
文学教育と都市の記憶が、親密な回想のかたちで立ち上がる。
ハードウィック、エプスタイン、そして70年代のニューヨークの知的気運を背景に、作家としての自分がどのように育ったかを振り返る。文学的な師弟関係と都市文化の記憶を、軽妙さと切実さの両方で描いた一冊として紹介されている。
書籍情報
- 出版社
- Farrar Straus & Giroux
- 発売日
- 2022-10-25
- ページ数
- 464ページ
- 言語
- 英語
- サイズ
- 16.38 x 3.56 x 23.62 cm
- ISBN-13
- 9780374126650
- ISBN-10
- 0374126658
- 価格
- 10601 JPY
- カテゴリ
- 洋書/Biographies & Memoirs/Historical
Critic and writer Darryl Pinckney recalls his friendship and apprenticeship with Elizabeth Hardwick and Barbara Epstein and the introduction they offered him to the New York literary world. Darryl Pinckney arrived at Columbia University in New York City in the early 1970s and had the opportunity to enroll in Elizabeth Hardwick’s creative writing class at Barnard. It changed his life. When the semester was over, he continued to visit her, and he became close to both Hardwick and Barbara Epstein, Hardwick’s best friend and neighbor and a fellow founder of The New York Review of Books . Pinckney was drawn into a New York literary world where he encountered some of the fascinating contributors to the Review , among them Susan Sontag, Robert Lowell, and Mary McCarthy. Yet the intellectual and artistic freedom that Pinckney observed on West Sixty-seventh Street could conflict with the demands of his politically minded family and their sense of the unavoidable lessons of black history. Pinckney’s education in Hardwick’s orbit took place in the context of the cultural movements then sweeping New York. In addition, through his peers and former classmates—such as Felice Rosser, Jim Jarmusch, Jean-Michel Basquiat, Lucy Sante, Howard Brookner, and Nan Goldin—Pinckney witnessed the coming together of the New Wave scene in the East Village. He experienced the avant-garde life at the same time as he was discovering the sexual freedom brought by gay liberation. It was his time for hope. In Come Back in September , Pinckney recalls his introduction to New York and to the writing life. The critic and novelist intimately captures this revolutionary, brilliant, and troubled period in American letters. Elizabeth Hardwick was not only his link to the intellectual heart of New York but also a source of continuous support and of inspiration—in the way she worked, her artistry, the beauty of her voice. Through his memories of the city and of Hardwick, we see the emergence and evolution of Pinckney himself as a writer.
Darryl Pinckney is the author of the novels Black Deutschland and High Cotton and the nonfiction works Busted in New York and Other Essays , Blackballed: The Black Vote and US Democracy , and Out There: Mavericks of Black Literature.
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It’s hard—perhaps impossible—to describe this book, but it’s worth one’s while to read it and decide for oneself. An established 20th century writer and literary critic (straight white middle aged woman) mentors an aspiring writer (young gay black man) in pre-AIDS bohemian NYC. The action bounces between the by-then-establishment Partisan Review crowd and the then-emerging punk(ish) club scene. We know, and therefore can see, it’s all taking place in a “Last Days of Pompeii” atmosphere and are, in fact, often reminded AIDS was lurking just up the street. It’s neither a “dark side” expose or a “warts and all” realist narrative, but rather a “slice of life”—sometimes rough and raw, sometimes varnished, sometimes gilded and ruffled into a baroque masquerade. There’s lots of conflict, lots of joy and sorrow, lots and lots and lots of gossip (whispered and shouted) and in the end it turns out to be possible to love everyone while hating some (many) of the things they say or do wrongly believe. Finally, as “In Search of Lost Time” finished, everyone’s older and there’s a party.
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Interesting in parts, but unbearably pretentious. The author clearly has no interest in his readers - it’s a vain stream of consciousness that is designed to show how many famous people he has interacted with - but it zigs and zags so much that keeping track of who these people are is nigh on impossible. Will no doubt be loved by a certain crowd, but if you - as I did - think “this is an interesting time, place and group of people I’d like to know more about” forget it.
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As much a history of a small but important part of NYC literary life in the 70's and 80's as a memoir. Written in a very readable "personable" style. I hope he does another, maybe an extension into the 90's and the 21st Century.
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I find biographical novels compelling. More people need to learn about this amazing woman
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positive experience
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