{"title":"Lillian Hellman","description":"Lillian Hellman (1905-1984) é uma das mais importantes dramaturgas americanas do século XX. Nascida em Nova Orleans, viveu a maior parte do tempo em Nova York, onde travou amizade com grandes escritores e intelectuais, como Ernest Hemingway, Arthur Miller, John Dos Passos e o autor de histórias de detetive Dashiell Hammett, com quem viveu por mais de trinta anos. Autora de The Children’s Hour (que ela\nmesma adaptou para o cinema como Três corações iguais) e As pequenas raposas (montada no Brasil em 2004, publicada na coleção Sabor Literário pela editora José Olympio), entre outras peças, Lillian Hellman\nobteve grande sucesso de público e de crítica.\nAtuou também como roteirista e escreveu\npara jornais.\nEscritora engajada de ascendência\njudaica, foi defensora dos direitos civis\ne se empenhou no combate ao nazismo\ndurante a Segunda Guerra Mundial. Em plena\nmaturidade artística, durante a Guerra Fria,\nsofreu as consequências por externar opiniões\nconsideradas antiamericanas, que a colocaram\nem rota de colisão com o macarthismo dos\nanos 1950 nos Estados Unidos.\n","products":[{"product_id":"a-caca-as-bruxas","title":"The witch hunt","description":"Lillian Florence Hellman was a courageous woman. She said no when everyone else was saying yes. In 1952, writer Lillian Hellman was subpoenaed to testify before Senator Joseph McCarthy's House Unamerican Activities Committee (HUAC), a pressure-packed tool to denounce as many \"leftists\" as possible. Lillian responded: \"To hurt innocent people, whom I have known for many years, in order to save my own skin, is, in my view, an inhuman, indecent, and dishonorable act.\" It was the year Joseph McCarthy, at the height of his power, was re-elected to the Senate. But Lillian did not appear before the Senate Committee. She was subpoenaed by a House of Commons Committee—the one that, due to its power and longevity, became the committee of the Cold War era: the House Committee on Un-American Activities. For about a third of this century, the Committee grew exasperated with its ever-growing files. testimonies and reports. Her period of greatest power began in 1948, with the outbreak of the Hiss affair. However, her broad mandate was already explicit in 1947, with the introduction of ideological tests for American products, starting with the film industry. Lillian participated in the most important contribution to 20th-century literature: that of the female voice. This visceral literature took root through writers such as Katherine Masnfield, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Parker, Joyce Carol Oates, Marguerite Duras, Clarice Lispector, and Ana Cristina Cesar. Social bias (more than political) never prevented Lillian from being a great chronicler of the human soul in its deepest conflicts. In this book, Lillian reflected: \"As I finish writing about this unpleasant time in my life, I tell myself that it all happened then, and there is now, and the years between then and now, and then and now are one.\"","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47159400366332,"sku":"9788503010788","price":54.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/108b9b5c306ff69ba065256d79f40fbb_58a0a98a-295b-4f3c-9b3c-6d273cb21da4.jpg?v=1778323726"},{"product_id":"as-pequenas-raposas","title":"The little foxes","description":"Lillian Hellman's play, written in 1939, offers a profound critique of the distortions of American society at the time. \"The Little Foxes\" was a critical and commercial success and was adapted for the screen, directed by William Wyler and starring Bette Davis. Always politically engaged, it faced opposition from the U.S. government in the 1950s. The play is a great classic of international drama, with frequent productions (including in Rio de Janeiro).","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175119962364,"sku":"9788503009485","price":49.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/7d7457c348cbd32b9feffa716f4e0745.jpg?v=1778323165"},{"product_id":"pentimento","title":"Pentimento","description":"As time passes, old paint on a canvas often becomes transparent. When this happens, the original lines can be seen in some paintings. This is called pentimento, because the painter has changed his mind.\n\n Pentimento is the best-known of Lillian Hellman's memoirs, the one that, despite its title, continues to gain increasing visibility. In it, the writer combined, with impressive precision, autobiographical narrative and portraiture. The chronological order\n creates growing tension. It all starts in the family, with the succession of relatives, the lucid description\n and somewhat ironic of her parents. The raw material with which the author begins to compose her “book of\n portraits” is the same one used in some of his plays.  \nA particularly striking episode in Pentimento is related to the order of historical events: it concerns Julia, the fictional name of a friend who became an anti-fascist activist in Vienna. Years later, the same friend managed to involve the writer in a dangerous mission: delivering money to the resistance to Hitler in Austria. This almost implausible story ended up being made into a film – Julia (1977). Today, there is no doubt that the title character was inspired by the life of psychoanalyst Muriel Gardiner (1901-1985), with the added bonus that the writer never met her... This fact leads to the conclusion that Lillian Hellman's book is not just memoirism, but may be, above all, fiction.  \nPentimento also deals with the writer's great love for Dashiell Hammett (1894-1961), a renowned author of detective stories. The pages are marked by anxiety, by a woman's pure devotion to her lover over 30 years—the definitive portrait in which all traces, real or not, are present, as Lillian Hellman, proud of her stories and her imagination, desired.","brand":"Totvsrj-record-dc","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47175120683260,"sku":"9788503010771","price":59.9,"currency_code":"BRL","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0722\/9197\/5420\/files\/e0ef58c2f67f3777fc390b8b324a3ab8.jpg?v=1779160442"}],"url":"https:\/\/www.record.com.br\/en\/collections\/lillian-hellman.oembed","provider":"Editora Record","version":"1.0","type":"link"}