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In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travel to California to found a "utopian" commune. Maryna, who has renounced her career, is accompanied by her small son and husband; in her entourage is a rising young writer who is in love with her. The novel portrays a West that is still largely empty, where white settlers confront native Californians and Asian coolies. The image of America, and of California-as fantasy, as escape, as radical simplification-constantly meets a more complex reality. The commune fails and most of the migrants go home, but Maryna stays and triumphs on the American stage. In America is a big, juicy, surprising book-about a woman's search for self-transformation, about the fate of idealism, about the world of the theater-that will captivate its readers from the first page. It is Sontag's most delicious, most brilliant achievement.
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In Amerika, Susan Sontag
- Sprache
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2001
- Einband
- (Hardcover)
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- Titel
- In Amerika
- Sprache
- Niederländisch
- Autor*innen
- Susan Sontag
- Verlag
- De Bezige Bij
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2001
- Einband
- Hardcover
- Seitenzahl
- 384
- ISBN10
- 9023462122
- ISBN13
- 9789023462125
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Historisches Thema, Liebe, Frauen, Theater, Amerikanische Literatur, Ehe, Amerika, Schauspieler und Schauspielerinnen
- Originaltitel
- In Amerika
- Bewertung
- 3,35 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- In 1876 a group of Poles led by Maryna Zalewska, Poland's greatest actress, travel to California to found a "utopian" commune. Maryna, who has renounced her career, is accompanied by her small son and husband; in her entourage is a rising young writer who is in love with her. The novel portrays a West that is still largely empty, where white settlers confront native Californians and Asian coolies. The image of America, and of California-as fantasy, as escape, as radical simplification-constantly meets a more complex reality. The commune fails and most of the migrants go home, but Maryna stays and triumphs on the American stage. In America is a big, juicy, surprising book-about a woman's search for self-transformation, about the fate of idealism, about the world of the theater-that will captivate its readers from the first page. It is Sontag's most delicious, most brilliant achievement.