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Cruel Banquet : The Life and Loves of Frida Strindberg
de Strauss, Monica, Strauss, Monica J
- Usado
- Estado
- Used - Good
- ISBN 10
- 0151002908
- ISBN 13
- 9780151002900
- Librería
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Mishawaka, Indiana, United States
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Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Used - Good. Used book that is in clean, average condition without any missing pages.
Sinopsis
Life is a cruel banquet, Frida Uhl Strindberg said. "You pay for food and board with your blood." Frida's banquet, in many ways, is the tale of her encounters with the seminal cultural figures of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries: August Strindberg, Edward Munch, Ford Maddox Ford, Ezra Pound, Augustus Johns. Her life embodied the fin-de-siècle generation, the contradiction in the relationships between men and women, between art and commerce. In 1893, one year out of convent school, Frida married the forty-three-year-old controversial Swedish playwright, August Strindberg. The marriage was an act of rebellion against her father-one of Austria's most important drama critics, a man preoccupied with his social and political standing, with concealing the family's marital discord and Jewish heritage. A divorceé by twenty-four, Frida successfully improvised a career as a cultural impresario. She saw herself as equal to men and made little distinction between her private and public lives. She never hesitated to draw on her feminine charms or maternal qualities to launch or hold a "discovery," nor did she spare her lovers or her children the calculations of a businesswoman. Monica Strauss fashions a complex and captivating look at Frida Strindberg's stubborn pursuit of a cultural role and her continuing struggle with the aftermath of her youthful marriage, truly a cruel banquet and an extraordinary story of an extraordinary woman.
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- Better World Books
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 5903318-6
- Título
- Cruel Banquet : The Life and Loves of Frida Strindberg
- Autor
- Strauss, Monica, Strauss, Monica J
- Estado del libro
- Used - Good
- Cantidad disponible
- 1
- Encuadernación
- Trade Cloth
- ISBN 10
- 0151002908
- ISBN 13
- 9780151002900
- Editorial
- Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company
- Lugar de publicación
- Orlando, Florida, U.s.a.
- Primera fecha de publicación de esta edición
- 2000-07-15
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