Goronwy Rees: 1 - Brossura

Harris, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0708316778 ISBN 13: 9780708316771

Casa editrice: Univ of Wales Pr, 2001

Riassunto

After gaining an Oxford fellowship at the age of twenty-one, Goronwy Rees (1909-79) went on to write for the Guardian and the Spectator before becoming Principal of the University College of Wales, Aberystwyth in 1953. A Marxist intellectual turned cold warrior, who also claimed that &;writing books is the only thing I&;m serious about&;, he became a full-time writer in 1957 following his acrimonious resignation from Aberystwyth over revelations about his friendship with Guy Burgess. This first study of Rees as author sets his writings in the context of a dramatically eventful life.

John Harris also discusses Rees&; complex relationship with Wales and how, although an unwavering advocate of home rule, he was perceived in his native country as being anti-Welsh. Whatever his personal trials, Rees kept up writing, publishing a powerful novel of ideas, a range of non-literary books, and two fine volumes of memoirs blending fictionalised autobiography with acute social analysis.

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Informazioni sull'autore

Formerly a lecturer in bibliography at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, John Harris has edited numerous works by Caradoc Evans and written extensively on Anglo-Welsh publishing history. He is the compiler of A Bibliographical Guide to Twenty-Four Modern Anglo-Welsh Writers (1994) and the editor of Goronwy Rees: Sketches in Autobiography (2001).

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Univ of Wales Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0708316778
• ISBN 13: 9780708316771
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 109
• Contatto del produttore: non disponibile
• Persona responsabile: gpsr@libri.de; gpsr@libri.de; ; Europaallee 1; Bad Hersfeld; 36244; Germania