Radical chic. Il fascino irresistibile dei rivoluzionari da salotto
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"Radical Chic" è il tagliente articolo in cui Tom Wolfe descrive il curioso fenomeno sociale, sorto alla fine degli anni Sessanta negli Stati Uniti, del corteggiamento da parte dell'élite newyorkese di ogni possibile rivoluzionario radicale, dagli antimilitaristi agli hippy psichedelici. L'occasione che ispirò a Wolfe la celebre definizione "Radical Chic" fu il ricevimento organizzato a Manhattan il 14 gennaio 1970 da Felicia Bernstein, moglie del compositore e direttore d'orchestra Léonard, per sostenere la causa del gruppo rivoluzionario marxista-leninista delle Pantere Nere. La serata si svolse nell'attico di tredici stanze che i Bernstein possedevano a Park Avenue, e Wolfe ne scrisse un ampio e caustico resoconto intitolato "These Radical Chic Evenings", pubblicato nel mese di giugno sul "New York Magazine". Confluito in un secondo momento nel libro "Radical chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchen", il testo è una satira irresistibile della buona coscienza progressista, che oggi come allora non resiste alla tentazione di unire benessere materiale e retorica rivoluzionaria.
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- Pagine: 135
- Data di uscita: 30-09-2014
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Tom Wolfe entered the political fray with the two essays in his 1970 book Radical Chic & Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers. “Radical Chic” describes a fundraiser that Leonard Bernstein and his wife Felicia held at their Park Avenue apartment for the Black Panther Party. Wolfe wasn’t actually invited to t Leggi tutto
Still valid. Still extremely valid. Still so valid that you can see parallels of everything described in the book in regular life. I'm not a new your socialite, but the idea of radical chic applies to most every cause today. I do see group organizers on a regular basis, and they mau-mau as much as e Leggi tutto
Tom Wolfe, full of snark. Wolfe's best work The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test , The Right Stuff , the early Esquire stories centers on character who he clearly admires. He's often called a great observer, but in truth, he's always been a better king-maker. More and more, Wolfe's tendency is to attack wh Leggi tutto
Picked this up yesterday for a quarter. It is an interesting document--one of many which signified a new journalism, a creative nonfiction. My only reason for reading this was the focus on Leonard Bernstein, or at least on his apartment. As Lenorard's daughter noted, he had a weaponized ego-- and su Leggi tutto
An absolute character assasination of the would be hip, open minded, liberal left wing. Reinforces "the more things change......" This is as true of an indictment today as it was 37 years ago
26 Nov. 2018 - I just noticed someone using the term "Mau-Mauing" and it brought back wonderful memories of the essay in this little book by Tom Wolfe that I read in the 70s, probably not too many years after it was published in 1970. What a great journalist Wolfe was. Catching just the right nuances Leggi tutto
Freaking gold. What an absolute gas. A stone groove. Classic pulse of the 1970s. Radical Chic sets the scene, and Mau-Mauing the Flak Catchers delivers. It takes it home. Nostalgie de la boue is a thing, or should I say thang. Nostalgie de la boue, as a term was coined in 1855 by Émile Augier in Fra Leggi tutto
The prejudices are clear - purportedly and expose about the hypocrisies of Upper-East-Side armchair liberalism, the author's voice clearly belongs to the crowd he criticizes. But nonetheless a hilarious, insightful piece of living history.
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