The Richard Burton Diaries - Rilegato

Burton, Richard

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ISBN 10: 0300180101 ISBN 13: 9780300180107

Casa editrice: Yale Univ Pr, 2012

Riassunto

Irresistibly magnetic on stage, mesmerizing in movies, seven times an Academy Award nominee, Richard Burton rose from humble beginnings in Wales to become Hollywood's most highly paid actor and one of England's most admired Shakespearean performers. His epic romance with Elizabeth Taylor, his legendary drinking and story-telling, his dazzling purchases (enormous diamonds, a jet, homes on several continents), and his enormous talent kept him constantly in the public eye. Yet the man behind the celebrity façade carried a surprising burden of insecurity and struggled with the peculiar challenges of a life lived largely in the spotlight.
This volume publishes Burton's extensive personal diaries in their entirety for the first time. His writings encompass many years—from 1939, when he was still a teenager, to 1983, the year before his death—and they reveal him in his most private moments, pondering his triumphs and demons, his loves and his heartbreaks. The diary entries appear in their original sequence, with annotations to clarify people, places, books, and events Burton mentions.
From these hand-written pages emerges a multi-dimensional man, no mere flashy celebrity. While Burton touched shoulders with shining lights—among them Olivia de Havilland, John Gielgud, Claire Bloom, Laurence Olivier, John Huston, Dylan Thomas, and Edward Albee—he also played the real-life roles of supportive family man, father, husband, and highly intelligent observer. His diaries offer a rare and fresh perspective on his own life and career, and on the glamorous decades of the mid-twentieth century.

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Recensione:

Stand back! Sally Burton just lit a literary firecracker and tossed it into the room. The widow of Britain's greatest film actor is presiding over the long-awaited publication of her late husband's diaries and they are beyond explosive. --Christopher Wilson, Daily Telegraph

Burton loved literature, and how proud he d have been to know that in his diaries he demonstrates considerable literary gifts. His observations about his peers are brilliant... This indispensable book is meticulously edited by Professor Chris Williams. --Roger Lewis, The Financial Times

Burton s diaries, published now for the first time, are filled with . . . pocket-size delights. . . But I admired this complicated and fairly remarkable book for its deeper and more insinuating qualities as well. --Dwight Garner, The New York Times

L'autore:

Chris Williams is professor of Welsh history, director of the Research Institute for Arts and Humanities, and deputy director of the College of Arts and Humanities, Swansea University. He lives in Swansea, Wales.

Su questa edizione

• Editore: Yale Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0300180101
• ISBN 13: 9780300180107
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 693
• Redattore: Williams Chris