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Cargando... One Man's Chorus: The Uncollected Writingspor Anthony Burgess
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. These brief essays on literature, music, and 20th century social history are delightful, like listening to an old man's monologues over a glass of whiskey. As that picture conjures up, they are opinionated, funny, wise, articulate, sometimes repetitive, and occasionally cringeworthy. Unlike such conversations, they never overstay their welcome and never cajole: perfect company for an evening or two. ( ) sin reseñas | añadir una reseña
"A genuine master of the mot and the anecdote, Burgess rarely fails to amuse in this generous selection of essays on topics as various as oranges (not only of the clockwork variety), Marilyn Monroe, God, and Yiddish humor (his favorite one-liner, the Jewish matron's response to her son's psychiatrist: "Oedipus Schmoedipus - what's it matter so long as he loves his mother?")." "In other of these candid and sometimes cantankerous pieces written over the past two decades Burgess revisits his youth in Manchester, reconsiders his experiences among British colonials in Malaysia, and reevaluates his literary exile in Monaco. He examines his craft, he carps at critics, he reflects upon literature and litterateurs, from such twentieth-century giants as James Joyce, T.S. Eliot, and Virginia Woolf to the eccentric Sitwells to fellow novelists Evelyn Waugh and Graham Greene."--Jacket. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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