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(3.6) | 2 | "The life of George Johnston, author of the best-selling My Brother Jack,was in many ways symbolic of Australian post-war cultural life. He was a complex character, dogged by feelings of mediocrity, betrayal and failure that he ultimately transformed though the writing of his brilliant trilogy My Brother Jack, Clean Straw for Nothingand A Cartload of Clay. In this award-winning biography, Garry Kinnane examines the process by which Johnston selected people, places and events for this creative transformation. In doing so, he reveals the reality that lay behind the glamorous outer facade of the life of Johnston and his wife, the writer Charmian Clift."… (mehr) |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. The most teasing puzzle in Johnston's fictional version of his childhood in My Brother Jack is the monstrous impression he creates of his father, John George Johnston, known to everyone as 'Pop'. | |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. Page 178 : Since it was to be autobiographical, Johnston's first task was to find a way of placing himself in the picture. For this he needed an alter ego, and he searched about until he came up with a name out of his childhood - Meredith, after the little town near 'Uncle Whittle's' farm at Dereel, near Ballarat. ... He may have had a second reason for choosing the name, and that was its literary connection with the English novelist, whose first name also happened to be George. | |
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Die Informationen stammen von der englischen "Wissenswertes"-Seite. Ändern, um den Eintrag der eigenen Sprache anzupassen. The final words of the story may best be left to June Crooke, the close friend of both Johnston and Clift:
Since then the daffodils have bloomed, though the dry years have not been kind to them. It is always surprising in a good year how successfully the nodding, shimmering patches of gold, cream and green can hold their own image yet also merge fittingly into the scraggy Australian landscape. George I know would have voiced the most appropriate eloquent words of approval and appreciation. (Zum Anzeigen anklicken. Warnung: Enthält möglicherweise Spoiler.) | |
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