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At the Strangers' Gate de Adam Gopnik

At the Strangers' Gate: Riverrun

Autor Adam Gopnik
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 6 sep 2017

Ne regăsim în pragul unei toamne timpurii din anii '80, când Adam Gopnik și soția sa, Martha, părăsesc confortul din Montreal pentru a debarca în zgomotul și ambiția New York-ului. Imaginea este una clasică, aproape cinematografică: doi tineri artiști aspiranți care caută un sens într-un oraș care începea deja să fie dominat de mirajul banilor. Observăm în At the Strangers' Gate cum Adam Gopnik reușește să transforme o simplă cameră de subsol din Upper East Side într-un observator antropologic al unei epoci de aur și, simultan, de criză. Ca și Smash Cut de Brad Gooch, această biografie transformă documentele personale și amintirile în narațiune pură, capturând acea atmosferă boemă populată de figuri legendare precum Richard Avedon sau Jeff Koons. Găsim în această carte o vulnerabilitate rară; autorul nu ne prezintă doar succesul, ci și „meandrele profesionale”, de la munca de funcționar la bibliotecă până la culoarele strălucitoare de la Condé Nast și MoMA. Stilul este unul arhitectural, unde frazele lungi și elegante construiesc nu doar o poveste de dragoste, ci și o analiză a eticii ambiției. Spre deosebire de A Thousand Small Sanities, unde autorul apără liberalismul cu o rigoare intelectuală tăioasă, sau de Angels and Ages, unde explorează viețile lui Lincoln și Darwin, aici Adam Gopnik revine la un ton intim, aproape confesional. Este o cronică a gentrificării trăite pe propria piele, de la entuziasmul găsirii unui loft accesibil în SoHo până la maturizarea într-o familie newyorkeză veritabilă.

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ISBN-13: 9781786489272
ISBN-10: 1786489279
Pagini: 253
Dimensiuni: 154 x 234 x 27 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Quercus Books
Seria Riverrun

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte celor care vor să înțeleagă New York-ul dincolo de clișeele turistice. Veți câștiga o perspectivă onestă asupra a ceea ce înseamnă să îți construiești o carieră creativă într-o metropolă dură. Este o lectură esențială pentru pasionații de memorii culturale care caută echilibrul perfect între umor, nostalgie și critică socială fină, oferind un portret viu al anilor '80.

Despre autor

Adam Gopnik este un nume de referință în peisajul jurnalistic american, fiind redactor permanent pentru publicația The New Yorker încă din 1986. Stilul său inconfundabil, care îmbină erudiția cu observația cotidiană, a fost rafinat de-a lungul deceniilor în eseuri și cărți de succes. Printre cele mai cunoscute lucrări ale sale se numără Paris to the Moon, o explorare a vieții în capitala Franței. Locuind în New York City, Gopnik este un cronicar fin al vieții urbane, premiat pentru capacitatea sa de a transforma experiențele personale în analize culturale profunde.

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When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, left the comforts of home in Montreal for New York, the city then, much like today, was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the ambitious. But it was also becoming a city of greed, where both life's consolations and its necessities were increasingly going to the highest bidder.

At the Strangers' Gate builds a portrait of this particular moment in New York through the story of this couple's journey--from their excited arrival as aspiring artists to their eventual growth into a New York family. Gopnik transports us to his tiny basement room on the Upper East Side, and later to SoHo, where he captures a unicorn: an affordable New York loft. He takes us through his professional meanderings, from graduate student-cum-library-clerk to the corridors of Conde Nast and the galleries of MoMA.

Between tender and humorous reminiscences, including affectionate portraits of Richard Avedon, Robert Hughes, and Jeff Koons, among many others, Gopnik discusses the ethics of ambition, the economy of creative capital, and the peculiar anthropology of art and aspiration in New York, then and now.

Recenzii

Engaging, witty, thoughtful, clever, casual, ebullient, erudite and thoroughly modern
Gopnik's mind darts about like mercury as he tells his tale
The distinctive brilliance of Gopnik's essays lies in his ability to pick up a subject one would never have believed possible to think deeply about then cover it in thoughts. He is truly able to see the whole world in a grain of sand
Adam Gopnik's avid intelligence and nimble pen . . . Conscientious, scrupulously savvy
Adam Gopnik is a dazzling talent - hilarious, winning and deft
By virtue of his exceptional observational and analytical powers, acute emotional and moral exactitude, and charmingly rueful sense of humor, he turns in a riveting and incandescent chronicle of personal evolution vividly set within the ever-morphing, cocaine-stoked crucible of ferocious ambition that was 1980s Manhattan . . . Arabesque, captivating, self-deprecating, and affecting, Gopnik's cultural and intimate reflections, in league with those of Alfred Kazin and Joan Didion, are rich in surprising moments and delving perceptions into chance, creativity, character, style, conviction, hard work, and love.
Gopnik has written with entrancing penetration on just about everything . . . He's one of the silkiest stylists around
Anyone who worries that artificial intelligence might some day outpace the faulty circuitry inside human heads
should be cheered by the existence of Adam Gopnik. His brain has nothing to fear from electronic competition. It
is an organ housed in a body, kindled by the appetites and affections of the flesh; it operates friskily, risking vast generalities that it clinches with neat, nimble aphorisms . . . Performed by him, such verbal flourishes are both witty and wise. Gopnik is a sleek stylist, and a high-minded, big-hearted moralist into the bargain.

Self-deprecation, his honesty, his humour, his amiable, relaxed acknowledgement of his own foibles. In short, he's enormously likeable . . . A real treat . . . A piece of real insight, perfectly put . . . Heartening proof of a life lived fully, and fully savoured
Gopnik's sentences build into paragraphs that are architectural feats . . . He is investigative again, tracing this psychic image of his own time, his own New York

Descriere scurtă

From The New York Times best-selling author of Paris to the Moon and beloved New Yorker writer, a memoir that captures the romance of New York City in the 1980s. When Adam Gopnik and his soon-to-be-wife, Martha, first arrived in 1980, New York City was a pilgrimage site for the young, the arty, and the ambitious. But it was also becoming a place where both life's consolations and its necessities were increasingly going to the highest bidder. At the Strangers' Gate is a vivid portrait of this time, told through the story of one couple's journey--from their excited arrival as aspiring artists to their eventual growth into a New York family. Through a series of comic mini-anthropologies that capture the fashion, publishing, and art worlds of the era, Adam Gopnik transports us from his tiny basement room on the Upper East Side to a SoHo loft, from his time as a graduate student-cum-library-clerk to the galleries of MoMA. Filled with tender and humorous reminiscences--including affectionate reflections on Richard Avedon, Robert Hughes, and Jeff Koons, among many others--At the Strangers' Gate is an ode to New York striving.