Between friends
the correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975
1st ed.
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Author
Contributions
- McCarthy, Mary, 1912- - Contributor
- Brightman, Carol. - Contributor
Publication
1995 - Harcourt Brace, New York, USA, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
103,000 words, Guess
Page Count
412 pages
Identifiers
- Open LibraryOL1435447M
- ISBN-10015100112X
- OCLC Control Number29563806
- OCLC Control Numberbetweenfriendsco00aren
- Library of Congress Control Number93047425
and 2 more
- LibraryThing35949
- Goodreads1797008
Classifications
- DDC320.5/092
- LCCJC263.A69 A3 1995
Description
They first met in New York: Mary McCarthy, an American writer, and Hannah Arendt, a philosopher who had fled Nazi Germany. They soon became friends and began a remarkable twenty-five-year exchange. McCarthy was an ardent, if not irrepressible, correspondent, whose letters served her autobiographical impulse and her delight in writing as a way of ordering experience. Arendt's letters bring her gruff, tender voice and keen intelligence to life on the page. Even as they traded ideas about politics, literature, morality, they also shared personal advice and delightful gossip. Between Friends, edited and with an introduction by Carol Brightman, brings together their remarkable epistolary dialogue in its entirety. Engrossing and entertaining, it gives us a fresh and intimate view of the long and unique friendship between two eminent intellectual presences of the twentieth century.
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