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Cargando... Petrushka and the Dancer: The Diaries of John Cowper Powys, 1929-1939por John Cowper Powys
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Powys’s diary is not merely the egotistical ravings of a self-proclaimed genius. It is a moving tribute to the woman who helped to fashion him as a writer. None of the books which he wrote before he met her were any good... Equally, we can salute the T. T.‘s good judgment in despairing of his mad preacher, or bardic wizard side. Not that she was any more sensible than he was. Their shared whimsy, their devotion to their doll Olwen, for example, will not please every reader... Will this diary, punctiliously edited and cut down to manageable size by the admirable Dr Krissdottir, lead to a Powys revival? Will those who enjoy the novels of Martin (or come to that Kingsley) Amis see the point of making the great imaginative journey through A Glastonbury Romance? It took the foolish things of the world to confound the wise, and the weak things of the world to confound the strong. I fear that John Cowper Powys’s extreme oddness (which made his schooldays at Sherbourne such torture, and which isolated him socially from all but his enormous family and his close circle of friends) will put people off.
"The extraordinary mind of the novelist John Cowper Powys (1872-1963) has never been so revealingly displayed as in this decade of diary entries, for the most part previously unpublished. They begin in America, as Powys withdraws from twenty-five years of freelance lecturing, and end in Wales, with the completion of Owen Glendower." "Day-to-day preoccupations - from the aesthetic to the anatomical - are here, along with reflections on his works in progress (books on philosophy, religion and literature, and five novels including A Glastonbury Romance), encounters with members of his family, and observations of rural life in upstate New York, in his beloved West Country, and in Wales. The entries also chart the complexities of his exceptional intimate life with Phyllis Playter, to form her biography as well as his autobiography. Skilfully edited from the vast original text, this selection distils the essence of Powys's life."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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But the most real, and as it seems involuntary, achievement of the diary is the gradual creation of the two characters, himself and his beloved, and the way in which their two personalities emerge quite separately, and as it were laboriously, from the vivid but disjected prose, like creatures with wings slowly uncrumpling from a chrysalis.