Tillie Olsen

Tell Me a Riddle

Dime una adivinanza

A collection of works, both fictional and non-fictional, gathered together here for the first time --

Tell Me a Riddle, Requa I, and Other Works

I Stand Here Ironing

Yonnondio follows the heartbreaking path of the Holbrook family in the late 1920s and the Great Depression as they move from the coal mines of Wyoming to a tenant farm in western Nebraska, ending up finally on the kill floors of the slaughterhouses and in the wretched neighborhoods of the poor in Omaha, Nebraska. Mazie, the oldest daughter in the growing family of Jim and Anna Holbrook, tells the story of the family's desire for a better life – Anna's dream that her children be educated and Jim's wish for a life lived out in the open, away from the darkness and danger of the mines. At every turn in their journey, however, their dreams are frustrated, and the family is jeopardized by cruel and indifferent systems.

From the Thirties

Yonnondio

Special 25th anniversary edition of the landmark survey that revolutionized the view of literary history.

Silences

&nbspTillie Olsen's personal selection from the work of 120 writers of prose and poetry, memoir and song, provides a contemporary view of this special relationship from such writers as Louise Bogan, Colette, Simone de Beauvoir, Grace Paley, Olive Schreiner, Gloria Steinem, Alice Walker, Eudora Welty, and Virginia Woolf. This book includes a monthly calendar, applicable to any year, for notes and reminders.

A Daybook and Reader

Mother to Daughter, Daughter to Mother, Mothers on Mothering

Photographs by Robert Adams, Harry Callahan, Bruce Davidson, Larry Fink, Danny Lyon, Sally Mann, Eudora Welty, and more Essays by Tillie Olsen and Estelle Jussim Prose and poetry by Sharon Olds, Adrienne Rich, Anne Sexton, Alice Walker, and Eudora Welty In this extraordinary volume, Mothers & Daughters: An Exploration in Photographs with essays by Tillie Olsen and Estelle Jussim, the most basic and the most mysterious of relationships -- as experienced in contemporary America -- is explored in all of its variety, nuance, and ambivalence. Nearly ninety photographers contributed penetrating images of mothers and their daughters -- women of every shape, hue, and social station. The result is an emotional mosaic of depth and detail and also a pioneering accomplishment in the history of photography. The photographers are joined by leading women writers and poets offering a kaleidoscopic gathering of insights and observations.

That Special Quality : an Exploration in Photographs

Mothers & Daughters

Pocos ensayos tan míticos e influyentes como Silencios, el seminal texto de Tillie Olsen sobre la invisibilización a la que se ven forzados escritores y escritoras por su clase social, género o color de piel. A través de cartas, dietarios y testimonios de numerosos autores, así como de su propia experiencia, Olsen escarba en las desventajas colectivas que hacen enmudecer a los escritores y bloquean la creación, dibujando así una suerte de canon literario de los silenciados que revolucionó los estudios literarios estadounidenses en los años sesenta. Asimismo, en Una de doce, el segundo de los ensayos que recoge este volumen, Olsen se centra en la invisibilización de las escritoras, en la devaluación, por parte de la crítica, de los temas sobre los que escriben, la autocensura y la combinación, siempre problemática, de creación y maternidad, de escritura y cuidados. Silencios tiene la potencia de 'Un cuarto propio' de Virgina Woolf o 'Cómo acabar con la escritura de las mujeres' de Joanna Russ y su contenido es tan vigente hoy como cuando fue escrito hace más de cincuenta años. El libro incluye un magnífico prólogo de Marta Sanz, en el que despliega una lectura personal y política del texto de Olsen.

Silencios

Leo Tolstoy

Contrasting stories on the ultimate questions: Olsen circles in psychological time; Tolstoy is linear, realistic.

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