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The Argonauts de Maggie Nelson

The Argonauts

Autor Maggie Nelson
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 26 ian 2016

Decizia de a-și construi o familie în afara normelor tradiționale, alături de un partener cu identitate de gen fluidă, devine punctul de plecare pentru una dintre cele mai provocatoare explorări ale intimității contemporane. În The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson nu se mulțumește să ne spună o poveste de dragoste; ea deconstruiește însăși ideea de „poveste”, invitându-ne într-un laborator de gândire unde experiența viscerală a sarcinii se întâlnește cu rigoarea filozofică. Ne-a atras atenția modul în care Nelson reușește să transforme momentele de maximă vulnerabilitate biologică și emoțională în argumente intelectuale despre libertatea individuală. Găsim în această carte o structură fragmentară, aproape aforistică, ce refuză liniaritatea facilă a memoriilor clasice. Autoarea practică ceea ce ea numește „autoteorie”, inserând referințe la Roland Barthes sau Susan Sontag direct în țesătura vieții de zi cu zi. Reținem că, pentru Nelson, limbajul este atât un instrument de eliberare, cât și o limitare; ea caută cuvinte noi pentru stări care nu au încă un nume în dicționarul convențional al familiei. În aceeași familie cu Mothers, Fathers, and Others de Siri Hustvedt, volumul adaugă o dimensiune radicală prin suprapunerea tranziției de gen a partenerului cu transformările propriului corp în timpul sarcinii. Această lucrare ocupă un loc central în opera lui Maggie Nelson, fiind o rafinare a temelor despre libertate și corp explorate în On Freedom. Dacă în alte proiecte, precum prefețele pentru Valencia sau To the Friend Who Did Not Save My Life, ea analizează moștenirea culturală a marginalității, în The Argonauts își asumă rolul de protagonistă a unei revoluții tăcute, dar ferme, în interiorul propriei case.

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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781555977351
ISBN-10: 1555977359
Pagini: 160
Dimensiuni: 139 x 208 x 15 mm
Greutate: 0.21 kg
Editura: Graywolf Press

De ce să citești această carte

Recomandăm această carte cititorilor care caută o lectură densă, ce îmbină confesiunea onestă cu filozofia. Este o resursă prețioasă pentru a înțelege complexitatea familiilor moderne și a identității de gen, oferind un model de gândire care nu simplifică realitatea pentru a o face confortabilă. Câștigați o perspectivă unică asupra modului în care iubirea și grija pot rescrie definițiile libertății personale.

Despre autor

Maggie Nelson este o scriitoare americană polivalentă, fiind poetă, critic cultural și eseistă, în prezent directoare a programului de scriere creativă la CalArts. Recunoscută pentru stilul său care sfidează genurile literare, ea explorează constant intersecția dintre artă, politică și experiență personală. Opera sa, care include cinci volume de non-ficțiune, este marcată de o erudiție remarcabilă și de curajul de a aborda subiecte dificile precum violența, genul și estetica durerii, fiind considerată una dintre cele mai influente voci intelectuale ale generației sale.

Recenzii

"Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog." --Ben Lerner
"There isn't another critic alive like Maggie Nelson--who writes with such passion, clarity, explicitness, fluidity, playfulness, and generosity that she redefines what thinking can do today. Indeed, I come away from "The Argonauts" with a heady, excited sensation of having seen unveiled a new era of embodied, soulful rumination. Her impeccable sentences destroy doxa and gleefully remake the body politic; her prose seems air-borne, like an Argus-eyed levitator in touch with the divine. Buoyant, Nelson soars through art and philosophy and her own experiences with reckless mastery and insurrectionary ease--a virtuosity born of deep reflection and fearless trust in what literature, at its best, can do." --Wayne Koestenbaum
"Once again, Maggie Nelson has created awe-inspiring work, one that smartly calls bullshit on the places culture--radical subcultures included--stigmatize and misunderstand both maternity and queer family-making. With a fiercely vulnerable intelligence, Nelson leaves no area un-investigated, including her own heart. I know of no other book like this, and I know how crucially the culture needs it." --Michelle Tea

"What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating. She invites us to 'pay homage to the transitive' and enjoy 'a becoming in which one never becomes.' Reading "The Argonauts" made me happier and freer." --Eula Biss
"Maggie Nelson cuts through our culture's prefabricated structures of thought and feeling with an intelligence whose ferocity is ultimately in the service of love. No piety is safe, no orthodoxy, no easy irony. The scare quotes burn off like fog." --Ben Lerner
"There isn't another critic alive like Maggie Nelson--who writes with such passion, clarity, explicitness, fluidity, playfulness, and generosity that she redefines what thinking can do today. Indeed, I come away from "The Argonauts" with a heady, excited sensation of having seen unveiled a new era of embodied, soulful rumination. Her impeccable sentences destroy doxa and gleefully remake the body politic; her prose seems air-borne, like an Argus-eyed levitator in touch with the divine. Buoyant, Nelson soars through art and philosophy and her own experiences with reckless mastery and insurrectionary ease--a virtuosity born of deep reflection and fearless trust in what literature, at its best, can do." --Wayne Koestenbaum
"In "The Argonauts," Maggie Nelson turns 'making the personal public' into a romantic, intellectual wet dream. A gorgeous book, inventive, fearless, and full of heart." --Kim Gordon
""The Argonauts "takes us on delicious journey into the real life intimacies and intricacies of queer love, sex, literature, and motherhood. Maggie Nelson's honesty, intelligence, humor and great writing transform what society might deem a radical, non-traditional lifestyle into the new desirable. A fucking gem of a book that touched and tickled all my sweet spots."--Annie Sprinkle
"Once again, Maggie Nelson has created awe-inspiring work, one that smartly calls bullshit on the places culture--radical subcultures included--stigmatize and misunderstand both maternity and queer family-making. With a fiercely vulnerable intelligence, Nelson leaves no area un-investigated, including her own heart. I know of no other book like this, and I know how crucially the culture needs it." --Michelle Tea
"Reading Maggie Nelson's" The Argonauts" helped me to feel some things I've long thought about but hardly been able to express regarding the socialization of the maternal function, which is the dispersed, dispersive essence of the futurity we present to one another until one is not another anymore. There's the violence I commit in making a claim for that futurity, and the violence I endure when that claim is granted. There's the exhaustive sharing that takes form as writing. There's the 'orgy of specificity' when the inexpressible is held and released in each expression 'cause I just want to sing your name even when I don't want to sing your name. There's the love story buried in every 'I love you, ' and in every 'I love you' there's a contract for destruction and rebuilding. There's" The Argonauts," which is one of the greatest books I've ever read."--Fred Moten

"In the 17th century a book like Maggie Nelson's" The Argonauts" might have been called an anatomy, by which I mean it's a learned, quirky, open-hearted, often beautiful naming-of-parts. The anatomy never forgets the fragile embodied world--its carnality or its finitude. And such is The Argonauts: a memoir (debriefing, really) at once raw, pensive, exhilarating, sad, funny, and embodied in the same profound way. Some of the memoirist's topics are unprecedented. Merely by describing her works and days, Nelson--like a kind of female Voltaire--could be said to wage staunch battle against the as-yet-undead forces of banality, stupidity, prejudice, and moral sloth." --Terry Castle

What a dazzlingly generous, gloriously unpredictable book! Maggie Nelson shows us what it means to be real, offering a way of thinking that is as challenging as it is liberating. She invites us to 'pay homage to the transitive' and enjoy 'a becoming in which one never becomes.' Reading "The Argonauts" made me happier and freer.--Eula Biss

Descriere

An intrepid voyage out to the frontiers of the latest thinking about love, language, and family
Maggie Nelson's "The Argonauts" is a genre-bending memoir, a work of "autotheory" offering fresh, fierce, and timely thinking about desire, identity, and the limitations and possibilities of love and language. At its center is a romance: the story of the author's relationship with the artist Harry Dodge. This story, which includes the author's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, is an intimate portrayal of the complexities and joys of (queer) family making.
Writing in the spirit of public intellectuals such as Susan Sontag and Roland Barthes, Nelson binds her personal experience to a rigorous exploration of what iconic theorists have said about sexuality, gender, and the vexed institutions of marriage and child-rearing. Nelson's insistence on radical individual freedom and the value of caretaking becomes the rallying cry for this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.

Notă biografică

Maggie Nelson is a poet, a critic, and the author of several nonfiction books, including "The Red Parts," " The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning," " Bluets," and "Jane: A Murder." She teaches in the School of Critical Studies at CalArts and lives in Los Angeles, California.