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Gordon M. Williams (1934–2017)
Autor von Straw Dogs
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(eng) Also wrote with Terry Venables under the pen-name P. B. Yuill.
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Williams, Gordon MacLean
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- Yuill, P. B. (joint Pseudonym with Terry Venables)
Williams, G.M. - Geburtstag
- 1934-06-20
- Todestag
- 2017-08-20
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- Scotland
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- Paisley, Renfrewshire, Scotland, UK
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- novelist
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- Williams, Claerwen (spouse)
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- Also wrote with Terry Venables under the pen-name P. B. Yuill.
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Williams has a gift for describing visceral situations, as we see the rational George Magruder, an American professor of English, plunged into a primal fight for survival in which only his instincts will matter. The wimpish Magruder becomes transformed. From a henpecked husband, he turns into a one man combat team, defending his home, wife, and daughter. The novel seemingly flies in the face of contemporary feminism (1969) and reexamines the role of masculinity in modern life. Magruder has literally allowed himself and his family to become vulnerable to murder because of his commitment to "civilized values" that dismiss the evolutionary needs to protect home and family from wild intruders.
The novel provides a cathartic experience. Not just for the reader but for Magruder as well. Only at the end, upon vanquishing his foes, does he regain his manhood--literally.
It is easy to see how Sam Peckinpah became enthralled with this book as the subject for his film, Straw Dogs. Peckinpah was an enthusiast of Robert Ardrey and Ardrey's notions of Territoriality. Ardrey himself was a screenwriter, but his true interest remained in ethology, where he was a populizer of such academicians as Konrad Lorenz. According to Ardrey's explanation of Territoriality, animals, especially primates, gained a sense of self identity through their association with a home territory, for which they would always be able to leverage greater psychological advantages over intruders in defending it to the death. Much of that seems to be at work in both Peckinpah's film and in Williams' novel.… (mehr)