Alan Sheridan (1934–2015)
Autor von Michel Foucault: The Will to Truth
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Überwachen und Strafen. Die Geburt des Gefängnisses. (1975) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 6,647 Exemplare
The Archaeology of Knowledge & The Discourse on Language (1969) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 1,521 Exemplare
Die Geburt der Klinik. Eine Archäologie des ärztlichen Blicks. (1963) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben; Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 1,264 Exemplare
Das große Heft. Der Beweis. Die dritte Lüge. Trilogie (1986) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 1,012 Exemplare
The Invention of Athens: The Funeral Oration in the Classical City (1981) — Übersetzer, einige Ausgaben — 65 Exemplare
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- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Sheridan-Smith, Alan Mark
- Andere Namen
- Sheridan Smith, A. M.
- Geburtstag
- 1934
- Todestag
- 2015
- Geschlecht
- male
- Nationalität
- UK
- Wohnorte
- London, England, UK
Paris, France - Ausbildung
- University of Cambridge (St Catharine's College)
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Known for his fiction as well as his autobiographical works, Gide exposed to public view the conflict and eventual reconciliation of the two sides of his personality, split apart by a straitlaced education and a narrow social moralism. Gide's work can be seen as an investigation of freedom and empowerment in the face of moralistic and puritanical constraints, and centers on his continuous effort to achieve intellectual honesty. His self-exploratory texts reflect his search of how to be fully oneself, even to the point of owning one's sexual nature, without at the same time betraying one's values. His political activity is informed by the same ethos, as indicated by his repudiation of communism after his 1936 voyage to the USSR.
Alan Sheridan's biography of Gide narrates his life year-by-year with beautiful style. He distills the significant biographical writings of Gide (Journals, autobiography, etc.) along with his literary work and very event-filled life. The book, at more than seven hundred pages, is nothing if not comprehensive; providing more detail on his subject’s life than you might want to know, unless you love his writing as I do. It is a scholarly work, with all the apparatus that one has come to expect of contemporary biographies – a forest of footnotes, an extensive bibliography and index.
From a relatively early date, Gide discussed his homosexuality in his books and elsewhere with commendable courage. His earlier autobiographical work, If it Die (Si le Grain ne Meurt), describes his African encounters, and in 1925 he published Corydon, an essay on homosexuality and its place in society, written in the form of a Socratic dialogue. Some of his arguments now seem, inevitably, dated, but to have published such a book at all at that time, even in the relatively more civilised culture of France, was brave. I especially appreciated Sheridan's commentaries on Gide's fiction, most of which I have read and love. Like all but the most famous European writers he is not well-enough known or appreciated in the United States.… (mehr)