Angus Wilson

di Peter J. Conradi (Autore)

Liverpool University Press, 1997

Sir Angus Wilson shot to fame in the late 1940’s – his first stories were greeted by Sean O’Faolain and Evelyn Waugh alike with delight. He was championed at once as an odd realist providing new social maps of post-war England – V S Pritchett was to see him as revising the conventional picture of English Character, and recovering “broadness” without losing humanity. He has many faces as a writer. If he inherits the comic Dickensian novel of social depth and density, he also marries this to a recognisably modern anxiety and insecurity about the ‘self’. Wilson’s major books often concern ‘creative breakdown’: they depict people who undergo a crisis and/or collapse of self-belief, and then have to find the courage to invent themselves anew.

• Autore: Peter J. Conradi
• Editore: Liverpool University Press
• Collana: Writers and Their Work
• Anno: 1997
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 96 p.
• Dimensioni: 216 x 138 mm
• Peso: 160 gr.
• EAN: 9780746308035

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