Rhys Davies (1) (1901–1978)
Autor de The Story of Wales
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Obras de Rhys Davies
A bed of feathers 5 copias
Across the Great Divide: Modernism's Intermedialities, from Futurism to Fluxus (2014) — Editor — 3 copias
Selected Stories 3 copias
My Wales 3 copias
THE PAINTED KING 2 copias
Rings on her Fingers 2 copias
A finger in every pie 2 copias
A pig in a poke, stories 2 copias
The Perishable Quality 1 copia
Jubilee Blues 1 copia
Tale 1 copia
To-morrow to fresh woods 1 copia
The skull 1 copia
The things men do; short stories 1 copia
Aaron 1 copia
Stained sheets #1.2 1 copia
Fear 1 copia
A time to laugh, 1 copia
The Contraption 1 copia
Obras relacionadas
The Edgar Winners: 33rd Annual Anthology of the Mystery Writers of America (1980) — Contribuidor — 45 copias
These Simple Things: Some Appreciations of the Small Joys in Daily Life (1965) — Contribuidor — 8 copias
American Aphrodite a Quarterly For the Fancy-Free (Volume 1, Number 3)"'Venus and Tannhauser' by Aubrey Beardsley" -… (1951) — Contribuidor — 4 copias
Boucher's choicest; a collection of Anthony Boucher's favorites from Best detective stories of the year (1969) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
American Aphrodite: A Quarterly for the Fancy-Free (Volume 1, Number 1) (1951) — Contribuidor — 3 copias
American Aphrodite: a Quarterly For The Fancy-Free (Volume 4, Number 14) (1954) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
American Aphrodite (Volume Five, Number Nineteen) / London Aphrodite (1955) — Contribuidor — 2 copias
Etiquetado
Conocimiento común
- Otros nombres
- Davies, Vivian Rees (birth)
- Fecha de nacimiento
- 1901-11-01
- Fecha de fallecimiento
- 1978-08-21
- Género
- male
- Nacionalidad
- UK
- Lugar de nacimiento
- Rhondda, Wales, UK
- Lugar de fallecimiento
- London, England, UK
- Lugares de residencia
- London, England, UK
- Educación
- Porth County School, Wales
- Ocupaciones
- novelist
short story writer
nonfiction writer
autobiographer - Relaciones
- Kavan, Anna (friend)
- Premios y honores
- OBE (1968)
- Biografía breve
- Rhys Davies was born Vivian Rees Davies in Blaenclydach, a side-valley of the Rhondda, near Tonypandy in Wales. His father kept a grocer's shop and his mother was a schoolteacher. He left school at age 14 and worked in his parents' shop and in Cardiff before moving to London, where he launched his literary career. His early short stories appeared in The New Coterie, a small avant-garde magazine. In 1927, he published his first short story collection, The Song of Songs, and his first novel, The Withered Root. Around this time, he was invited to stay with D.H. Lawrence and Frieda Lawrence in the south of France. The meeting was dramatized in the play Sex and Power at the Beau Rivage (2003) by Lewis Davies, Rhys's younger brother. Davies led a peripatetic life in the 1930s. He became a prolific writer but had financial success. Eventually, he was made financially secure by two legacies, one from the estate of his friend Anna Kavan and the other from Louise Taylor, the adopted daughter of Alice B. Toklas. In 1967, he won the Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America for his collection of stories The Chosen One. In 1968 he was admitted to the Order of the British Empire. Davies wrote The Honeysuckle Girl (1975) based on Anna Kavan's early life. D.J. Britton's play Silverglass is about the relationship between Rhys Davies and Anna Kavan.
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Estadísticas
- Obras
- 47
- También por
- 20
- Miembros
- 151
- Popularidad
- #137,935
- Valoración
- 3.7
- Reseñas
- 6
- ISBNs
- 24
Barbara has keenly felt the agony of her sisters death and devotes her time to tracking down the man who made her pregnant. She has little information to go on, but knows that Marianne had been exploring her burgeoning sexual needs in the town and that the father of her child had broken off their relationship, which had resulted in Marianne's terminal depression. Some six months later Barbara tracks down the man: a steelworker from the rough end of town and without revealing that she is Marianne's twin sister, forms her own relationship with him and entices him into marriage. Secrets and lies is the name of the game and outlook looks as bleak as the Welsh weather.
Davies's exploration of the connectivity of the twins and the darker side of their sexuality and their struggle with the other sex, a struggle for dominance and fulfilment reminded me of the novels of D H Lawrence and it was not too much of a surprise when I discovered later that Davies was briefly part of the circle around Frieda and D H Lawrence, staying with them in France and smuggling a copy of Lawrence's Pansies (poetry collection) into England. Rhys Davies himself was the author of twenty novels and numerous collections of short stories and was awarded an OBE in 1968.
My second hand copy of the novel was advertised as being inscribed with a dedication by the author and it is a curious thing indeed because it is written in mid blue ink: "To Harry with Love from Win. Christmas 1951" Clearly Win. is not Rhys and on closer inspection it appears that the original name has been scratched out and Win. written over it in darker coloured ink. The original name can still be partly seen and looks to end in ys therefore Rhys.
I am always fascinated by dedications in secondhand books, perhaps there is a story there. Davies was homosexual, but never wrote about his sexuality. One could imagine then all sorts of reasons why the name was changed. A discovery and I enjoyed yet another plunge into the 1951 literary world - 4 stars.… (más)