Literary Rivals: Feuds and Antagonisms in the World of Books: Literary Antagonism, Writers' Feuds and Private Vexations - Rilegato

Bradford, Richard

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ISBN 10: 1849546029 ISBN 13: 9781849546027

Casa editrice: Robson Pr, 2014

Riassunto

Novelists, poets, and playwrights live double lives. When they fall out with each other they seem to do so with great passion. This highly entertaining book looks at some of the most complex friendships and enmities in literary history and examines the dramatic effects on literature itself. Grudge matches covered here include Vladimir Nabokov against Edmund Wilson; Norman Mailer, Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Virginia Wolfe, and John Updike against each other; Ernest Hemingway's spectacular and very public falling-out with former friends Gertrude Stein and Alice Toklas; Lillian Hellman against Mary McCarthy; plus many more.

Richard Bradford is professor of English and a senior distinguished research fellow at the University of Ulster.

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Just how many of the great literary works were replies to, or parodies of, lesser works by rivals? It's an intriguing question... which Richard Bradford commendably doesn't shirk from confronting; we don't necessarily like to see our favourites behaving badly... What Bradford also exposes, apart from who the clear winners of these arguments are, is the importance of literary success, and legacy, to many writers, especially those whose egos fail to allow them to accept nothing less than immortality. --The Independent on Sunday

The sections on complex one-upmanship, evinced in letters and the works themselves, are full of close reading and insight. If you're after some knockout put-downs, it doesn't get much better than this --Financial Times

Well written, entertaining and provocative. --The Independent

Bradford has done his homework; he quotes some fascinating exchanges. --The Spectator
< br/>Well written, entertaining and provocative. --The Telegraph

There's a vacancy for a compendium of the most entertaining feuds of the past. And Bradford has stepped in to fill it. --Prospect

Simultaneously playful and erudite, Richard Bradford's cleverly conceived work embraces the bias and the bizarre impulses of writers we might suppose above such behaviour. --Good Book Guide

L'autore

Richard Bradford: Richard Bradford has authored biographies of Kingsley Amis (Lucky Him 978 0720611175), Philip Larkin (First Boredom, Then Fear 978 0720613254) and Martin Amis (978 1605983851).

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• Editore: Robson Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1849546029
• ISBN 13: 9781849546027
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 316