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Those who read Brightman's NBCC-winning biography Writing Dangerously: Mary McCarthy and Her World will remember the snippets of this correspondence as one of the highlights. Wise, eloquent and loving, the letters chronicled a quarter-century friendship between two women of widely differing backgrounds united by respect and a shared contempt for intellectual fraud. Their characters and their circumstances made for a rich exchange: Based in Europe, the American writer McCarthy (1912-1989) gave the German-born political philosopher Arendt (1906-1975) an earpiece into Europe, while Arendt, based in New York City and Chicago, served a similar function for McCarthy. McCarthy's carefully constructed, wonderfully perceptive letters and Arendt's more studious replies return time and again to moral philosophy, politics and shared friends (including many of the intellectuals of the time). But the letters are also models of the fine art of constructive criticism and the role of friendship. ``Workmanly friendship,'' as McCarthy says, describing Arendt's Men in Dark Times, ``of apprentices starting out with their bundle on a pole and doing a piece of the road together.'' That their bundle included a half-dozen important books and their road was an uneven one of critical kudos, unfavorable reviews, the popular success of McCarthy's The Group and the intellectual furor over Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem should not obscure the warmth or trueness of this deeply engaging exchange. (Jan.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved
Kirkus评论
An absorbing document of a time, a culture, and a friendship. They make slightly incongruous comrades, the sober German émigré philosopher of totalitarianism and the sparkling chronicler of the vicissitudes of American intellectual life. But their initial suspicion warmed into what Brightman (Writing Dangerously, 1992) accurately characterizes as an ``epistolary romance.'' The relationship spanned an eventful quarter-century and provided Arendt with her closest American confidante. For McCarthy, Arendt's reflective nature and intellectual rigor seem to have supplied important qualities in which she felt comparatively wanting. Beginning amid the querulous, paranoid wreckage of post-McCarthy American liberalism and closing in the fractious aftermath of Watergate, their competitive but by all accounts deep-rooted friendship grounds a quirky, insightful running commentary on postwar American intellectual life. The exchanges sometimes have a distinctly theatrical air, especially when McCarthy confesses her tempestuous emotional upheavals to a sympathetic but slightly skeptical Arendt. At other times (as when Arendt tutors McCarthy on the genealogies of European thought), the relationship has a touch of pedagogy about it. The names dropped comprise a Who's Who of American opinion-making, from intellectual cold warriors like Sidney Hook and Norman Podhoretz to cultural monuments as varied as Saul Bellow and Dick Cavett. What evolves through the shared reflections--alongside the expected political and philosophical musings and the tales of house parties, soirees, and summits on Cape Cod, Riverside Drive, and the Left Bank--is a growing and touching intimacy that eventually finds the two addressing each other as ``my love'' and ``my dear.'' There is a certain poignancy for the contemporary reader, too, in the sense these letters communicate of a vibrant and engaged intellectual culture that seems almost to have vanished from American life. A fascinating record that casts each of its formidable protagonists in a gentler and more personal light.
《图书馆杂志》(Library Journal )书评
A literary landmark: the correspondence between philosopher Arendt, a refugee from Nazi Germany, and American intellectual McCarthy, covering everything from politics to McCarthy's love life. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.