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Lädt ... The Lost Childhood and Other Essays (1951)von Graham Greene
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In almost all of the twenty-three brief studies in "The Lost Childhood," whether it is criticism of a specific novel, such as "The Woman Who Was Poor" of Leon Bloy, or a character sketch such as the one on the sculptor Eric Gill, Greene is primarily concerned, in his role of critic, with discovering what he calls the "obsession" of his author -- the one theme -- and with illuminating the entire work by an analysis of the obsession. He sees every creative writer who has made any real achievement, as a victim, as a man victimized by an obsession. This is a difficult formula for a critic to follow but which, in the case of Graham Greene, is particularly rewarding. The Lost Childhood and Other Essays is a collection of 46 essays, a few of which I had read elsewhere - such as The Lost Childhood with its account of Graham Greene's suddenly awakened interest in writing at the age of 14, an interest induced by reading Marjorie Bowen's The Viper of Milan. And The Revolver in the Corner Cupboard, with its confusingly (mis)stated odds of survival, in which he tells a terrible tale of his efforts to escape boredom during his late teens by playing at Russian roulette with his brother's revolver. Continued
From Dickens to Wilde--literary criticism and personal reflections by a master "unmatched . . . in his uncanny psychological insights" (The New York Times). Graham Greene shares his love affair with reading in this collection of essays, memories, and critical considerations, both affectionate and tart, "[that] could have come from no other source than the author of Brighton Rock and The Power and the Glory" (The Scotsman). Whether following the obsessions of Henry James, marveling at the "indispensible" Beatrix Potter, or exploring the Manichean world of Oliver Twist, Graham Greene revisits the books and authors of his lifetime. Here is Greene on Fielding, Doyle, Kipling, and Conrad; on The Prisoner of Zenda and the "revolutionary . . . colossal egoism" of Laurence Stern's epic comic novel, Tristram Shandy; on the adventures of both Allan Quatermain and Moll Flanders; and more. Greene strolls among the musty oddities and folios sold on the cheap at an outdoor book mart, tells of a bizarre literary hoax perpetrated on a hapless printseller in eighteenth-century Pall Mall, and in the titular essay, reveals the book that unlocked his imagination so thoroughly that he decided to write forever. For Greene, "all the other possible futures slid away." In this prismatic gallery of profound influences and guiltless pleasures, Greene proves himself "so intensely alive that the reader cannot but respond to the dazzling combination of intelligence and strong feeling" (Edward Sackville West). Keine Bibliotheksbeschreibungen gefunden. |
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