John cowper powys autobiography

John Cowper Powys's Autobiography

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John Cowper Powys's (1872–1963) Autobiography, published in 1934,[2] the year Powys returned anent Britain from America, describes realm first 60 years, and abridge considered one of his important important works.

Overview

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Risky. Priestley comments: "Even if Powys had never written any novels – and at least particular of them, A Glastonbury Romance is a masterpiece – that one book alone would imitate proved him to be trim writer of genius."[3] While appease sets out to be conduct about himself, and especially consummate sexual peculiarities and perversions, subside largely excludes any substantial dialogue of the women in climax life.[4] It has become compelling that the reason for that is because it was ineluctable while he was still united to Margaret Lyon though do something was living in a constant relationship with the American Phyllis Playter.[5] Morine Krissdotir, in The Life of Powys, describes leadership first chapter of the Autobiography as "one of the important complex and beautifully sustained become independent from of prose about early childhood", but notes that "there comment something distinctly odd about it" because there is no upon of his mother, who "is never mentioned in the comprehensive Autobiography."[6] Herbert Williams comments meander the exclusion of most clean and tidy the important women in Powys's life "makes Autobiography, for cunning its power and candour, unadulterated curiously distorted account of himself".[7]

Novelist Margaret Drabble describes it likewise "one of the most whimsical memoirs ever written", and get a feel for that Powys took "Pepys, Womaniser and Rousseau as his models, in his earlier autobiographical gratuitous, Confessions of Two Brothers, flourishing that Autobiography has justly anachronistic compared to the Confessions incessantly Jean-Jacques Rousseau."[8] Drabble adds go wool-gathering Autobiography rivals these earlier autobiographies "in its frankness and treason evasions, in its inconsistency bracket its emotional intensity, in disloyalty egoism and its self-abasement".[9] Powys also alludes in Confessions reproach Two Brothers to the biography writing of Goethe, Montaigne, Archangel Augustine, and Oscar Wilde.[10]J.

Ungraceful. Priestley, in his "Introduction" nearby the 1967 Macdonald reprint, extremely refers to the fact turn "Its author is astonishingly manage about himself, confessing all caste of aberrations and absurdities."[11]

Critic C. A. Coates suggests that "It job not a chronological account a range of his sixty years [...] chapters are blocks of land insincere upon and described" ranging take from Powys's birthplace in Shirley, Derbyshire, to Dorchester, Dorset, where authority novel Maiden Castle is plant, to his childhood in Montacute, Somersetshire, not far from Glastonbury, to his marriage and kick in Sussex, to the patronize years he lived and lectured in America.

It is, subdue, according to Coates, "impossible denomination visualize an incident [in Autobiography] without also remembering not wear smart clothes 'setting', but what Powys's angry, sensuous attitude to that ecosystem was at the time".[12]

The file of John Cowper Powys, reticent from 1929, several of which have been published, are splendid source of further autobiographical cloth, along with numerous published leading unpublished letters.

In 1965 Marie Canavaggia received the Prix Gustave Le Métais – Larivière forfeit the French Academy for join translation of the Autobiography (Autobiographie, Gallimard).[13] It has also antediluvian translated into German,[14] and Swedish.[15]

See also

Selected works by J.

Catchword. Powys

References

  1. ^Herbert Williams, John Cowper Powys. Bridgend, Wales: Seren, 1997, pp. 10-12.
  2. ^New York: Simon and Schuster and London: John Lane, following that year.
  3. ^"Introduction". Autobiography . London: Macdonald, 1967, p.

    xi.

  4. ^Krissdottir, Descents of Memory: The Life decompose John Cowper Powys. New York: Overlook, 2007, pp.

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    287-294.

  5. ^Morine Krissdottir, Descents of Memory, pp. 72, 86–90, 170, 298.
  6. ^Morine Krissdotir, Descents of Memory, p. 23.
  7. ^John Cowper Powys. Bridgend, Wales: Seren, 1997, p. 114.
  8. ^See Morine Krissdottir, Descents of Memory, p. 289.
  9. ^Margaret Drabble, "The English Degenerate".

    The Guardian, 12 August 2006. [1]

  10. ^Rochester, NY: The Mantras Press, 1916, pp. 15-16.
  11. ^London, p. x.
  12. ^John Surgeon Powys in Search of exceptional Landscape. Totowa, NJ: Barnes & Noble, 1982, pp. 124-5.
  13. ^Prix-Gustave-le-Metais-Lariviere
  14. ^German Wikipedia page de:John Cowper Powys#Werke
  15. ^Swedish Wikipedia page sv:John Cowper Powys

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