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Cargando... Julian Grenfell: His Life and the Times of His Death, 1888-1915 (1976)por Nicholas Mosley
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A biography of the First World War poet Julian Grenfell. It helps readers to understand why Julian and his generation seemed to want to die in battle. It also brings Edwardian society to life, as well as describes his relationship with his mother. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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The death of a son is a terrible blow for any mother and yet Ettie Grenfell was not ‘any’ mother. Not content with ‘her unrivalled position in the Edwardian worlds of wit and fashion’, she had always insisted on first place in her sons’ affections while, at the same time, indulging in a series of ‘open affinities’ with their male contemporaries, most of whom also died in the war. And yet even after the loss of a second son Ettie refused to succumb to grief. Deciding that ‘life is a series of farewells’, she instead used their deaths ‘to provide the context of her living’ and even to ‘accentuate her brio’.
What brio? I ask myself. For, her sexual availability aside, Ettie Grenfell had nothing to offer the world and, along with Julian Grenfell, no staying power in history. So why an ill-written 400 page biography of such an odious pair? And why, given the fact that I disliked almost everyone in the book, did I slog through it to the bitter end? ( )