At the same time, “Unfinished Business,” like all her memoirs, is a sexy book. Erotic experience may no longer work for her in metaphorical terms, but it is very much at the center of the story of her own life.
“Joyous” is the key word. If the substance of Gornick’s revelation was novel to her, its effect wasn’t. Radical socialism had been a religion in her parents’ house—a source of faith and celebration. Every Sunday, her uncles—“capitalists and Zionists,” she said—came over to ritually argue politics. Her parents never lit Shabbos candles, but they pulled Vivian from school to celebrate May Day. They were humble working people, and she saw how having a politics made them dignified and proud.
Such a book could hardly arrive in a more receptive climate, but Gornick is nervous. When it first came out, critics accused her of ignoring the politics of Communism while glorifying its adherents. “The reviews shocked and frightened me,” she told me. “I didn’t dream that it was such a live issue still in 1978.” Even now, she can quote phrases from Irving Howe’s oddly suggestive. “I went to bed for a week after I read that one,” she said. Still, she agrees with the assessment.
Easier hoped than done. Like other feminists of her generation, Gornick looks at the #MeToo movement with a mixture of admiration, reservation, and suspicion. She understands the anger, but she thinks the approach is too grim and censorious, at once too aggressively scattershot in tactic and too limited in scope.
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