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Emyr Humphreys - Outside the House of Baal, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2019

Outside the House of Baal

Av Emyr Humphreys

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Spanning the twentieth century, Outside the House of Baal is the story of the conflict between public duty and personal love. In the course of a day J.T. Miles looks back over his life, a "Good Man" confronted by the choices of living. He is forced to contemplate the modern world (of which he feels no part) and his betrayal of his Welsh-speaking heritage; the unsuitability of his marriage and his relationship with the woman who now shares his house; his self-defined mission to bring about social change and his own inability to pass on love. It has been a life of drama, and defeat; a life which mirrors the fate of his country in the twentieth century.This classic novel has been completely revised for this edition, which includes an introduction by the author, and notes on the text."In a phrase or two Mr Humphreys's people are solid and present. If novels are about the human heart then this is an impressively central one"The Sunday Telegraph"One of the most gifted of novelists. He has an instinctive sense of the ways in which men and women are shaped by their environment, an eye for the incident that reveals character, a deep feeling for the poetry which is a part of everyday life, the sharp and loving clarity of some Dutch master"Goronwy Rees
Produktinformation
  • Utgivningsdatum: 2019-04-15
  • Mått: 209 x 136 x 35 mm
  • Vikt: 577 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 400
  • Förlag: Poetry Wales Press
  • ISBN: 9781854111029
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Emyr Humphreys, born in 1919 in Prestatyn, north Wales, is one of the foremost Welsh novelists writing in English. He is the author of over twenty novels, of short story volumes, verse and non-fiction work, and was described by the poet R.S. Thomas as 'the supreme interpreter of Welsh life'. In the early 40’s, as a conscientious objector, and whilst studying history at the University of Wales, Aberystwyth, he was sent to work on the land during the Second World War. He subsequently went as a war relief worker to the Middle East and then to Italy. In the mid-fifties, he joined BBC Wales as a drama producer, before taking a lectureship in Drama at the University of Wales, Bangor. In 1972, after remarkable success as a young novelist, winning the Somerset Maugham Award for Hear and Forgive (1952) and the Hawthornden Prize for A Toy Epic (1958), his most famous novel, written in both Welsh and English, he embarked on a career as a full-time writer. His work, which has remained true throughout his career to the realist novel, is concerned with goodness, with social and political conscience. Mass culture is an opiate, which the necessarily singular voice of the fiction writer must (in however beleaguered a manner) continue to oppose.' In his volume of short stories, Old People are a Problem (Seren, 2003), he explores a variety of situations in which the young and the old are obliged to live together at the beginning of the 21st century. His most recent work is The Woman at the Window (Seren, 2009).

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