Мэри Маккарти цитаты
Мэри Маккарти
Дата рождения: 21. Июнь 1912
Дата смерти: 25. Октябрь 1989
Другие имена:Mary McCarthyová,Mary Therese McCarthy
Мэ́ри Тере́за Макка́рти — американская писательница.
Мэри Маккарти симпатизировала коммунистам, но после московских процессов солидаризировалась с Львом Троцким и осуждала сталинизм. Входя в коллектив журнала «Partisan Review», где приобрела репутацию талантливого критика, также печаталась в «The Nation», «The New Republic», «Harper’s Magazine» и «The New York Review of Books». После Второй мировой войны выступала с критикой и маккартизма, и советского строя. Во время войны во Вьетнаме несколько раз посещала Вьетнам и выступала с критикой негативного изображения вьетнамских партизан в западных СМИ.
Была замужем четыре раза. Начиная с 1938 года, её мужем был известный литературный критик Эдмунд Уилсон, в этом браке у Мэри Маккарти родился сын, Reuel Wilson.
Одной из её ближайших подруг была Ханна Арендт.
Подобные авторы
Пол Голдбергер2
американский архитектурный критик, писатель, колумнист
Алекс Росс
музыкальный критик
Ребекка Уэст2
английская писательница, журналистка и суфражисткаЦитаты Мэри Маккарти
„A society person who is enthusiastic about modern painting or Truman Capote is already half a traitor to his class. It is middle-class people who, quite mistakenly, imagine that a lively pursuit of the latest in reading and painting will advance their status in the world.“
— Mary McCarthy
Up the Ladder from Charm to Vogue (1950)
„In violence, we forget who we are.“
— Mary McCarthy
"Characters in Fiction," Partisan Review (March/April 1961)
„I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you’re older, I think, is that — how to express this — you really must make the self.“
— Mary McCarthy
Context: I suppose everyone continues to be interested in the quest for the self, but what you feel when you’re older, I think, is that — how to express this — you really must make the self. It's absolutely useless to look for it, you won’t find it, but it’s possible in some sense to make it.
Interview by Elisabeth Niebuhr in "The Paris Review Interviews: Writers at Work, Second Series" (1963) [the interview took place in March 1961]
„Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils“
— Mary McCarthy
Context: Calling someone a monster does not make him more guilty; it makes him less so by classing him with beasts and devils (“a person of inhuman and horrible cruelty or wickedness,” OED, Sense 4). Such an unnatural being is more horrible to contemplate than an Eichmann — that is, aesthetically worse — but morally an Ilse Koch was surely less culpable than Eichmann since she seems to have had no trace of human feeling and therefore was impassable to conscience.
"The Hue and Cry," The Writing on the Wall (1970)
„What's the use of falling in love if you both remain inertly as you were?“
— Mary McCarthy, Between Friends: The Correspondence of Hannah Arendt and Mary McCarthy, 1949-1975
„I am putting real plums into an imaginary cake.“
— Mary McCarthy
Commenting on her novel The Group. New York Herald Tribune (5 January 1964)
„To care for the quarrels of the past, to identify oneself passionately with a cause that became, politically speaking, a losing cause with the birth of the modern world, is to experience a kind of straining against reality, a rebellious nonconformity that, again, is rare in America, where children are instructed in the virtues of the system they live under, as though history had achieved a happy ending in American civics.“
— Mary McCarthy
Memories of a Catholic Girlhood (1957)
„We all know in our gut that art educates. In other societies, they're aware of the power it has of speaking directly to the masses, teaching them to be better socialists, better citizens. The trouble is that with us it's fallen into the wrong hands. Forget the speculators... The concept of the collector is so rotten by now that it stinks.“
— Mary McCarthy
Cannibals and Missionaries (1979)
