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    The Argonauts -

    Maggie Nelson

    Graywolf Press
    2015
    160 páginas
    5h 20m
    ISBN-10: 1555977073
    3.9
    26 avaliações
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    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 Nelson's account of falling in love with Dodge, who is fluidly gendered, as well as her journey to and through a pregnancy, offers a firsthand account 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 of this thoughtful, unabashed, uncompromising book.

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    The argonauts [2015] Maggie Nelson (EUA, 1973-) Grazwolf, 2015, 150 p. 📖 Procurar uma categoria onde “The argonauts” pudesse se enquadrar seria possivelmente o gesto mais desatencioso com sua leitura. É mais fácil, talvez, dizer o que o livro não é, a começar, por ex., com a ausência de qualquer fio narrativo que conduza uma história. Tampouco caberia confortavelmente no gênero biográfico, ainda que seja essencialmente memória; autoficção também não satisfaz, mesmo com tanto “eu autoral” a criação ficcional não é ponto de partida nem de chegada. Prosa anfíbia e sem limites, rejeita dicotomias para enfrentar o dogmatismo das "verdades universais" via rebuliço epistemológico de um punhado de arquétipos. 📖 O aspecto aforístico-episódico da prosa de Nelson mistura, portanto, teoria e memória, sexualidade e crítica, para dar conta de uma miríade de assuntos—da transição de seu parceiro à gravidez e maternidade, da construção social de papéis de gênero à manutenção crítico-filosófica de mindsets deficitários (para não dizer ortodoxos). É um livro delicioso de ler, afiado e divertido, mas que exige um ouvinte que deseje conversa e alimento pro juízo, muito mais que uma história de acalento ou desassossego. Seu horizonte simbólico e intelectual, vibrante de amor, linguagem e *queerness*, mantém leitoras e leitores livres para vagar pelas páginas e explorar, no ritmo que lhes aprouver, ideias sobre arte, corpo, estética, liberdade, coragem, poesia, humor, cultura, alteridade e solidão. . . . 📖 . . . “I know now that a studied evasiveness has its own limitations, its own ways of inhibiting certain forms of happiness and pleasure. The pleasure of abiding. The pleasure of insistence, of persistence. The pleasure of obligation, the pleasure of dependency. The pleasure of ordinary devotion. The pleasure of recognizing that one may have to undergo the same realizations, write the same notes in the margin, return to the same themes in one’s work, relearn the same emotional truths, write the same book over and over again—not because one is stupid or obstinate or incapable of change, but because such revisitations constitute a life" (p. 12).

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    Maggie Nelson

    Maggie Nelson is a poet, critic, scholar, and nonfiction writer. In 2016 she was received a MacArthur "genius" grant. She is the author of five books of nonfiction, including The Argonauts (Graywolf Press, 2015), which won the National Book Critics Circle Award in criticism and was a New York Times best-seller; a landmark work of cultural, art, and literary criticism titled The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Norton, 2011), which was featured on the front cover of the Sunday Book Review of the New York Times and named a NY Times Notable Book of the Year; the cult classic Bluets (Wave Books, 2009), which was named by Bookforum as one of the 10 best books of the past 20 years; a memoir about her family, media spectacle, and sexual violence titled The Red Parts (originally published by Free Press in 2007, reissued by Graywolf in 2016); and a critical study of painting and poetry titled Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (University of Iowa, 2007; winner, the Susanne M. Glassock Award for Interdisciplinary Scholarship). Her books of poetry include Something Bright, Then Holes (Soft Skull Press, 2007), Jane: A Murder (Soft Skull, 2005; finalist, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of the Memoir), The Latest Winter (Hanging Loose Press, 2003), and Shiner (Hanging Loose, 2001). She has been the recipient of a 2012 Creative Capital Literature Fellowship, a 2010 Guggenheim Fellowship in Nonfiction, an NEA Fellowship in Poetry, and an Andy Warhol Foundation/Creative Capital Arts Writers Grant. She currently lives in Los Angeles.

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