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Diversifications includes a long poem by the author, 'The Long Habit of Living', together with his loose reworking of Mayakovsky's classic long poem 'Cloud in Pants', and some loose translations of Brecht, plus a number of poems "in the manner of Brecht". Each of the book's three sections offer the reader another aspect of Augustus Young, whether the voice be his own, or a kind of ventriloquy.
Making of an Alter Ego
Reading between the lines of how the pure poet presented himself in life
Häftad, 2026
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In 'The Making of an Alter Ego', Augustus Young shines new light on Rilke’s famously perplexing autofiction, 'The Notebooks of Malte Laurids Brigg', chronicling his own attempts to uncover the story within the story. 'The Notebooks. . .' has puzzled readers ever since it was penned a century ago. It is about a young poet in the throes of an artistic crisis indirectly drawn from Rilke’s personal and intellectual life. It offers fertile ground for Young’s audacious and indeed virtuosic detective work in unravelling subplots in its composition. Young takes the reader on a journey of discovery into one of literary history’s most singular creative minds. Through an exploration of Rilke’s many correspondences, his relationships with his contemporaries, we are given fresh insight into the man and his most baffling and alluring work. By reordering the elliptical novel’s structure, and through transcriptions of key passages, the reader arrives at Rilke’s creation of an alternative self.This is volume two of 'Things That Happen When Reading Rilke' and follows volume one – 'The Making of a Pure Poet'.
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With his first volume of his personal chronicle, Light Years, published to great acclaim in 2002, Augustus Young came to attention as an Irish writer outside the usual conventions, well able to exploit his heritage but not bound by it. His mastery of prose style, humour and ability to adduce within his writing an astonishing compass of material is the basis of his originality. Storytime continues his perceptions of his family, the Ireland of his experience and imaginings, and the literary marketplace. Against this is set the wider culture which provides him with a viewpoint for understanding both himself and the world he lives and has lived in. Storytime is humourously satirical, entertaining, but also acutely reflective about a culture in transition and the possibilities of survival. It is ultimately a work, it becomes clear, written as a way of fending off fear of death. In the end, Augustus's story is about two deaths, that of a culture and his own. That neither is conclusive suggests that for the author, the telling of stories ensures transition into an afterlife. Naturally, he finds this reassuring both for the culture and himself.