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Sarah: The Life of Sarah Bernhardt: Jewish Lives

Autor Robert Gottlieb
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 21 sep 2010

Dacă Napoleon a dominat câmpurile de luptă ale Europei, Sarah Bernhardt a cucerit imaginația colectivă a lumii, transformând scena într-un instrument de putere diplomatică și culturală. Remarcăm în volumul Sarah o scenă care definește spiritul ei indomabil: la peste șaptezeci de ani, cu un picior amputat, „Divina Sarah” traversa Atlanticul pentru al nouălea său turneu american sau recita versuri sub bombardamente pentru soldații din tranșeele Marelui Război. Abordarea biografică a lui Robert Gottlieb evocă rigoarea din Bernhardt and the Theatre of Her Time, dar perspectiva sa este mult mai intimă, concentrându-se pe tensiunea dintre identitatea sa evreiască și statutul de icoană națională a Franței. Reținem finețea cu care autorul disecă relația tumultuoasă a actriței cu fiul său, Maurice, un conservator convins, în contrast cu poziția ei pasionată de „dreyfusardă” și susținătoare a lui Zola. Spre deosebire de memoriile sale subiective din My Double Life, lucrarea de față funcționează ca un filtru critic care cerne adevărul din straturile groase de mitologie pe care Bernhardt însăși le-a cultivat. Stilul narativ este unul alert, aproape cinematic, reușind să surprindă nu doar tehnica teatrală revoluționară, ci și viața romantică scandaloasă care a ținut prima pagină a ziarelor de epocă. Poziționată în contextul operei lui Robert Gottlieb, care a explorat estetica mișcării în Reading Dance, această biografie beneficiază de ochiul format al unui critic care înțelege că prezența scenică a lui Bernhardt a fost, în esență, o formă de coregrafie a puterii și a seducției.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9780300141276
ISBN-10: 0300141270
Pagini: 256
Ilustrații: 94 b-w illus.
Dimensiuni: 146 x 210 x 24 mm
Greutate: 0.43 kg
Editura: Yale University Press
Colecția Yale University Press
Seria Jewish Lives


De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această biografie cititorilor pasionați de istoria teatrului și de marile figuri feminine ale secolului al XIX-lea. Veți descoperi nu doar portretul unei actrițe legendare, ci și povestea fascinantă a modului în care s-a născut conceptul modern de celebritate globală. Este o lecție despre reziliență și despre cum identitatea culturală poate modela o carieră artistică în perioade de criză politică profundă.


Despre autor

Robert Gottlieb este o figură legendară în lumea editorială americană, fost redactor-șef la Simon & Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf și The New Yorker. Recunoscut pentru erudiția sa în domeniul artelor spectacolului, Gottlieb a publicat lucrări de referință precum Reading Dance și antologii dedicate dansului american. Expertiza sa în analiza mișcării și a prezenței scenice îi oferă un avantaj unic în portretizarea lui Sarah Bernhardt. În prezent, acesta ocupă funcții academice de prestigiu la Occidental College, continuând să contribuie prin eseuri și biografii la înțelegerea fenomenului cultural modern.


Descriere scurtă

From the prizewinning Jewish Lives series, a riveting portrait of the great Sarah Bernhardt from acclaimed writer Robert Gottlieb

Everything about Sarah Bernhardt is fascinating, from her obscure birth to her glorious career—redefining the very nature of her art—to her amazing (and highly public) romantic life to her indomitable spirit. Well into her seventies, after the amputation of her leg, she was performing under bombardment for soldiers during World War I, as well as crisscrossing America on her ninth American tour.
Her family was also a source of curiosity: the mother she adored and who scorned her; her two half-sisters, who died young after lives of dissipation; and most of all, her son, Maurice, whom she worshiped and raised as an aristocrat, in the style appropriate to his presumed father, the Belgian Prince de Ligne. Only once did they quarrel—over the Dreyfus Affair. Maurice was a right-wing snob; Sarah, always proud of her Jewish heritage, was a passionate Dreyfusard and Zolaist.
Though the Bernhardt literature is vast, Gottlieb’s Sarah is the first English-language biography to appear in decades. Brilliantly, it tracks the trajectory through which an illegitimate—and scandalous—daughter of a courtesan transformed herself into the most famous actress who ever lived, and into a national icon, a symbol of France.

About Jewish Lives: 

Jewish Lives is a prizewinning series of interpretative biography designed to explore the many facets of Jewish identity. Individual volumes illuminate the imprint of Jewish figures upon literature, religion, philosophy, politics, cultural and economic life, and the arts and sciences. Subjects are paired with authors to elicit lively, deeply informed books that explore the range and depth of the Jewish experience from antiquity to the present.

In 2014, the Jewish Book Council named Jewish Lives the winner of its Jewish Book of the Year Award, the first series ever to receive this award.

More praise for Jewish Lives:

"Excellent." –New York Times

"Exemplary." –Wall Street Journal

"Distinguished." –New Yorker

"Superb." –The Guardian

Notă biografică

Robert Gottlieb is the author of Lives and Letters, George Balanchine, and Great Expectations: The Sons and Daughters of Charles Dickens. His career in publishing—as editor-in-chief of Simon and Schuster, Alfred A. Knopf, and The New Yorker—is legendary.

Recenzii

"A fascinating look at Bernhardt's mythology and the stagecraft behind it. . . . What Sarah understood--as Gottlieb, a storied editor and publisher, makes clear--was how the heightened drama of performance might be extended to her own life."--Vogue

"Mr. Gottlieb's fluid style and lightly worn authority offer a lucid and essential modern guide to the making of celebrity, in an era before the noun existed."--Norman Lebrecht, Wall Street Journal

"Robert Gottlieb is true to the mystery of his subject's self-invented life. He also does what few biographers of famous women seem able or willing to do: He focuses on her work. . . . Vintage Gottleib, full of humor and refreshingly free of hagiography."--Susan Salter Reynolds, Los Angeles Times

"Immensely entertaining."--Jeremy McCarter, Newsweek


"A delectable, witty short biography of legendary French actress Sarah Bernhardt, and a decidedly unstuffy debut for Yale's Jewish Lives series."--Shelf Awareness

"Gottlieb's Sarah is a fine introduction to a fascinating woman, giving the reader a lively sense of why, so many decades after her death, the name of Sarah Bernhardt, above all others, still stands for actress."--Julius Novick, The Forward

"There's an amazing amount of information here, about an amazing woman. . . . This is the first English-language biography of Sarah Bernhardt, and it is wonderfully informative as well as entertaining. I'm glad I've been given the opportunity to experience it, and will never again think of her as just that woman who was famous for playing Hamlet."--Shakespeare Geek

"An elegant and engaging portrait worthy of Bernhardt. . . a terrific book."--Glenn C. Altschuler, NPR Books We Like

"Comprehensive and illuminating about many things besides Bernhardt--French anti-Semitism, sexual mores amongst the intellectual aristocracy, etc.--without being exhausting. I can't imagine Bernhardt's story being told better."--Scott Eyman, Palm Beach Post

"Appropriately lively. . . Gottlieb's affable, anecdotal style suits the subject well."--Graham Robb, New York Review of Books

"Sarah Bernhardt is a gift to the raconteur. Mr. Gottlieb takes full advantage. Where he can, he stages her life as a performance, with knowing asides and a certain kind of old-fashioned fun." — Economist

"[A] sharp, efficient biography."--Emma Brockes, New York Times Book Review

"Robert Gottlieb's book is appropriately small, beautiful and packed with drama. . . . Mr. Gottlieb is a meticulous reader, researcher and distiller of information. . . . Although he claims we can know little about her actual performances, he manages to make them come alive. I see her and hear her, declamatory to our modern sensibilities, alarmingly natural and passionate to audiences of the late 19th century."--Kathleen George, Pittsburgh Post-Gazette

"One ends this breathlessly readable and deeply intelligent book in as much awe of Sarah as people and audiences were in her own lifetime; it is that rarest of books, a serious biography that reads not only like a novel, but like a big, romantic, sprawling, over-the-top novel. Gottlieb has made of her story a wonderful book--one, which, to pay it its highest due, any editor, including himself (and me), would give his or her eye-teeth to have published!"--Michael Korda, Daily Beast

"In 'Sarah: The Life of Sarah Berndhardt', Robert Gottlieb presents (his subject) appreciatively, in full color, in all her exuberance, extravagance, beauty, passion and talent. This is the first English-language biography in decades of the first internationally known stage star."--Sandee Brawarsky, New York Jewish Week

"Gottlieb shows in this fine, sympathetic biography [that Sarah Bernhardt] put the world on a leash and added it to her own private menagerie."—Betty Smartt Carter, Books & Culture

"Very readable. . . . Gottlieb holds the reader's interest throughout. . . . [An] excellent biography. . . . Recommended very highly for casual reader as well as for specialists."—Richard Weigel, Pages

"Robert Gottlieb's biography of Bernhardt is very readable and covers the actress' fascinating life qutie well."—Richard Weigel, Bowling Green Daily News

"Gottlieb writes about Bernhardt with convincing respect and sympathy, tempered with quiet amusement at her oddities and excesses. His lucid, conversational, urbane prose is accompanied by numerous illustrations. . . . Gottlieb's Sarah is a fine introduction to a fascinating woman."—Julius Novick, Forward

Received Honorable Mention in the Biography/Autobiography category of the 2010 New England Book Festival

"it's an ambitious book, a real doorstopper. . . . You'll learn all manner of facts."—David Wood, Book Report

"[Robert Gottlieb] does what few biographers of famous women do: He focuses on her work."—Susan Salter Reynolds, Newsday

"Robert Gottlieb presents her appreciatively, in full color, in all her exuberance, extravagance, beauty, passion and talent."—Sandee Brawarsky,

“With panache worthy of his subject, Gottlieb lays out the players as if Bernhardt’s life were a stage drama. His charismatic prose captures the spell of the consummate mythmaker.”—Carol Ockman, coauthor of Sarah Bernhardt: The Art of High Drama
“Robert Gottlieb sifts through the fiction in this hugely entertaining biography of the theatrical legend, and often casts doubt on the competing accounts of her life with little more than a raised eyebrow.”—Victoria Segal, The Guardian