Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
28 05 2009Título: Memories of a Catholic Girlhood
Autor: Mary McCarthy
Obra adaptada: NO
Nivel: Avanzado
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Autobiography is a very appealing literary genre, which invites the readers to know, at first hand, the author’s experiences and inner life. Feelings pour out into the pages of a book through which the writer wants to involve readers in his/her memories.
Apart from luring men and women all over the world, autobiographical books play a very important social and historical role. They pass on traditions and knowledge, while shedding light on public and private events, which help the reader to shape an open-minded world approach.
Mary McCarthy’s “Memories of a Catholic Girlhood” is a superb autobiography “collected slowly, over a period of years”, as she herself points out, about an orphaned girl who was brought up between two sets of Catholic, Protestant and Jewish grandparents.
McCarthy (1912-1989) was an American novelist, essayist and critic, who contributed to the most important general interest magazines in her country, having written acute articles on women’s liberation, communist witch hunt and nuclear weapons, to mention just some issues she was concerned with.
Having been educated as a Catholic, her life story is peopled with nuns and priests who exerted, through a humanistic upbringing, a fundamental function in her creative thinking. Far from being an obedient girl, Mary McCarthy developed a sharp criticism in her childhood, which culminated with her atheism as a young woman.
The book is highly recommendable, not only because of the opportunity it offers readers to think about their own childhood – there is always something in common between people –, but due to the attractive, brilliant way Mary McCarthy tells her story.
Helga Maria Saboia Bezerra 2ºNA
Valoración: 5/5
Categorías : INGLÉS