FIGHTING ANGEL - Portrait of A Soul

Pearl S. Buck

Pocket Books

1964

223 páginas

7h 26m

ISBN-13: 9780671803230

Fighting Angel (first published January 1st 1936), biografia do pai da autora, Absalom Sydenstricker & The Exile: Portrait of an American Mother (1936) - biografia de sua mãe Caroline. |...| The biography of the father of Pearl S. Buck. "A vigorous biography of the author's father, a lonely adventurer ranging the turbulent interior of old China through the hazards of famine, banditry and revolution." [from the cover of the first edition, published in 1936]. |...| [From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia] Fighting Angel: Portrait of a Soul (1936) is a memoir, sometimes called a "creative non-fiction novel," written by Pearl S. Buck about her father, Absalom Sydenstricker (1852–1931) as a companion to her memoir of her mother, The Exile (1936). 'The book is conflicted portrait of her father written in 1936 to take advantage of the success of The Exile but also to tell a different part of her parents’ story. “Andrew,” the name she uses for her father in the book, had a “swordlike singleness of heart,” for the early missionaries, she wrote, were “born warriors and very great men” who were “proud and quarrelsome and brave and intolerant and passionate.” He dedicated himself to “the Work,” as he called it, but a lifetime of evangelizing produced few converts and at the cost of scarcely recognizing the existence of his wife or family and of failing to understand China. Though her father professed not to know what the word “imperialism” meant, Buck sees his mission as part of the “astounding imperialisms of the West.” Buck later remarked that reading Herman Melville’s Moby Dick saved her soul, and perhaps she saw something of her father in Captain Ahab, a figure also bent on a mission'.